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At least four inmates killed in fire at Iran prison

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October 17, 2022, 7:45 pm
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Paris—At least four Iranian inmates died in a fire in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison overnight, the judiciary said Sunday, further stoking tensions one month into protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.

The Iranian authorities blamed the fire on “riots and clashes” among prisoners, but rights groups said they had little faith in the official version of events.

“Four prisoners died due to smoke inhalation caused by the fire, and 61 were injured,” the judiciary authority’s website Mizan Online reported.

Four others were in “serious condition”, it said, adding that the fire had been extinguished.

Prisoners’ relatives and rights groups voiced grave fears for the inmates and said authorities had used tear gas at the facility.

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Gunshots and explosions were heard during the blaze from inside the complex, illuminated by flames and smothered by smoke, in video footage posted on social media channels.

The fire came after four weeks of protests over the death of 22-year-old Amini, following her arrest for allegedly violating Iran’s strict dress code for women.

The wave of demonstrations has turned into a major anti-government movement in the Islamic republic, confronting its clerical leadership with one of its biggest challenges since the ousting of the shah in 1979.

Evin, infamous for the ill-treatment of political prisoners, also holds foreign detainees and thousands facing criminal charges.

Hundreds of those arrested during the recent demonstrations and in a crackdown on civil society have been sent there.

“We do not accept official explanations,” the Norway-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR), adding it had received reports that guards had sought to “incite” prisoners.

Rights groups reported night-time protests in Tehran in solidarity with Evin detainees, and more demonstrations were held Sunday, including at Tehran University.

Iranian rights activist Atena Daemi, herself a long-time inmate of Evin, wrote on Twitter that in the early hours of Sunday several buses and ambulances were seen leaving the facility.

She said some prisoners in Ward 8, which houses political detainees, had been transferred to another jail.

IHR reported that inmates’ relatives gathered outside Evin on Sunday, seeking information about their loved ones.
Kazem Gharibabadi, deputy head of Iran’s judiciary, visited the prison and blamed “those incarcerated in Ward 7” for the unrest. He said the fire “did not spread to other wards”.

Citing a Tehran prosecutor, the official IRNA news agency said the clashes had “nothing to do with the recent unrest in the country”.

The four inmates who died had been convicted of robbery, Mizan said.

Evin prison holds French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah and US citizen Siamak Namazi, whose family said he was taken back into custody days ago after a temporary release. Namazi’s US attorney Jared Genser said he had spoken to his family, and that he was unharmed.

France said it was following “with the greatest attention” the situation of French citizens “arbitrarily detained” in the facility.

In ‘distress’

Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was held in Evin for most of her 800-plus days behind bars in Iran, told AFP she had heard that all the women political prisoners were safe.

But supporters of Austrian prisoner Massud Mossaheb said he was suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation and tear gas.

“He can barely speak… He is in big distress,” their Twitter account said.

Hossein Sadeghi, the father of rights activist Arash Sadeghi who was arrested days ago, said he had spoken with his son.

Amnesty International’s secretary general Agnes Callamard stressed that Iranian authorities “have the legal obligation to respect and protect the lives and wellbeing of all the prisoners”.

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said the bloc expected “maximum transparency on the situation” at Evin.

The EU has agreed to level new sanctions, a move expected to be endorsed by its foreign ministers Monday.

At least 108 people have been killed in the Amini protests, and at least 93 more died in separate clashes in Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchestan province, according to IHR.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday accused US President Joe Biden of “inciting chaos” after he expressed support for protests, while the head of the Revolutionary Guards accused the West of a cultural “invasion” of Iranian schools.

“The riots are a path that has come from strategic think tanks in America and England which have spread to our classrooms,” the Guards’ Sepah News website quoted Major General Hossein Salami as saying.

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