Iran: prison

AFP reports that the deathtoll as result of the blast last week has risen to 36.
This doubles the toll of 17 who were reported or the 23 wounded people,mentioned by a Revolutionary Guards spokesman.
The raised death toll was based on a compilation of reports of funerals in Iran’s news agencies over the past few days, as well as newspapers published on Thursday. The articles identified those buried by name, for a total of 36 names.
source: freedomessenger


The conditions in prisons in Iran are more deteriorating.
Currently 13,000 people are packed in s prison with a capacity for 3,000 people .
The Central Prison of Mashhad, Camp Chenaran and the Corrections and Rehabilitation Center of Mashhad, say that they can hold on average 15 thousand and 9,953 prisoners, respectively.Currently they have three times the capacity of prisoners.
Last year the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a report about Ward 350 of Evinprison.
Humanrightsactivist Ali Kantouri who was detained in Ghazal Hessar Prison in Karaj, told ICHRI that a high population is packed together in very little space. Hygienic conditions are very bad also so many inmates suffer from "prisonfever"because they infect each other.
People who suffer from serious medical illnesses are in need of urgent care, such as Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, Abdollah Momeni, Keyvan Samimi, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Ali Tari, Ghassem Shole Saadi, Issa Saharkhiz, Shabnam Medadzadeh, and Hamed Rouhinezhad outside the prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org



The lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani who currently is detained in Evinprison, wants to file a lawsuit against Mohammad Javad Larijani who falsely accused him of terroristic connections.
His wife, Massoumeh Dehghan told ICHRI that Soltani never has faced such charges and that he and his lawyers will be filing a lawsuit against him.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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