Iran’s detained in “unbearable” conditions after applying Israeli strikes

One month from the deadly Israeli air strikes in the notorious Iranian prison during the war between the two countries, the prisoners say they are kept in unbearable and inhuman conditions after moving to other rounds.

Despite the promises of the authorities, some of those who are transferred from the Ewin prison in Tehran, they say they continue to face difficulties as overflowing cells, lack of beds and conditioner, limited toilets and showers, as well as insects.

The BBC received accounts from family members who moved from Evin, who agreed to speak on the condition of anonymity with the concern of the security of themselves and the prisoners.

On June 23, Israel aimed Evin. According to the Iranian authorities, 80 people were killed, including five prisoners, 41 prison officers and 13 military recruits.

Thousands of men and women, including well -known political dissidents, human rights defenders, journalists and double and foreign nationals, as well as members of religious and ethnic minorities, took place in prison.

After that, all the prisoners were taken out and sent to other prisons after the attack.

Tested videos and satellite images confirm the damage to several buildings in the complex, including the medical clinic, the visitors’ center, the prosecutor’s office and the administrative building.

After the attack, the Israeli military described the prison as “a symbol of oppression for the Iranian people.” It states that he struck in “accurate order to mitigate the damage to civilians.”

Iran called an attack “military crime”.

Israeli military also said Evin was used for “reconnaissance operations against Israel, including counter-epion.” He did not comment on when asked to submit evidence of the requirement.

On Tuesday, Amnesty International said that after an in -depth investigation, the attack was “serious violation of international humanitarian law and should be criminal investigated as war crimes. “

“According to international humanitarian legislation, the prison or the place of detention is assumed by civil facilities, and in this case there is no reliable evidence that Prison Evin was a legal military purpose,” he added.

Through his family members, one political prisoner, who was sent to the Central Penitentiary Institution of the Great Tehran, is also known as the Phazhafi prison, stated that colleagues told him that the conditions were inhuman before the detainees of Evin were postponed.

He said he was in the prison in such a distant and dangerous zone outside the capital, that his wife could not visit him since he had moved there.

Compared to Evin, located in the affordable, residential area of Northern Tehran, Fasafi is 20 miles (32 km) south of Tehran, in the desert, nothing but the road, according to family members.

The prisoner told his family that many prisoners were still sleeping on the floor in Fasafiy in crowded cells without air conditioning, although the authorities have repeatedly said they would improve the situation.

In the video from the inside of the prison, which was checked by the BBC, shows the camera overcrowded by the prisoners lying on the beds and on the floor.

At one point, a group related to the authorities came to jail to shoot a video intended to show that the prisoners were well, but other prisoners began chanting the “death of the dictator” – a popular slogan of protest among Iranian opposition groups aimed at the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah, and stopped them.

Fambus’ families have said political prisoners are now in the same camera as the accused or convicted of severe crimes. This is a tactic that is talking about the rights that say Iran is using to intimidate political prisoners and have Against the United Nations rules for the treatment of prisoners.

Another political delay, translated into Fasafuy, described his family’s camera as an unbearable due to the absence of hygiene, from bed bugs and cockroaches around, adding that there are not enough benefits in prison, even compared to Evin.

Earlier, Human Rights Watch accused Iranian authorities of using torture threats and uncertain imprisonment, as well as prolonged interrogations and refusal to medical assistance for the detainees. Iran rejected these reports.

Despite the fact that Evin has long been convicted by human rights groups for alleged torture and threats, the conditions in Fasafui were “undervalued”, prisoners of the BBC said.

Famous Iranian journalist Mehdi Mahmudian, who was also transferred from Evin to Fashafui, said in a letter published on his Instagram page that was due to the non-political nature of the prisoners who were there They were “long forgotten” And “years of humiliation, neglect and oppression” is subjected to “because” they have no voice. ”

Fariba Kamalabadi, 62-year-old detained Bahay, who was transferred from Evin to Karchak jail, south of the capital, said he “would rather die in an attack than to be transferred to such a prison.”

Iran Bahay’s minority community has long been confronted with systematic discrimination and persecution, denied constitutional recognition and fundamental rights, such as education, state employment and religious freedom because the Islamic Republic does not recognize its religion.

“Fariba must live in a snag in a crowded chamber, where she is so cramped that people should eat food at the table in turn, and then return to her beds from the lack of space,” said her daughter Alhan Tefi, who lives in the UK.

“Some of the approximately 60 prisoners who were transferred from Evin with her are elderly women and they do not receive proper medical care. There are flies everywhere. Her son -in -law, who have six and nine, allowed her to visit Evina, but were not given permission to visit her yet.”

The BBC contacted the Iranian Embassy in London to comment on the conditions of the prisoners transferred from Evin.

On a month after the strikes, the BBC checked the death of seven civilians associated with the attack on Evin, including a five -year -old boy, a doctor and a painter.

Members of the Mehrangiz Imenpour family, 61, painter and mothers of two who lived near the prison complex, told the BBC that “got into the tragedy” of the attack.

She left the house to use a cash car and accidentally walked down the street adjacent to the prison visitors when Israel hit the complex, the family member said. She was killed by the blast.

Her children are devastated, a relative who tells the BBC.

“When two states participate in the conflict, people are those who pay the price. Both states are both responsible and both should be registered,” the relative said.

Additional Chaian Sardarizade, BBC, check