The number of people who died in prison in Iran has reached 8
President Chief He accused Biden of “inciting chaos, terror and destruction in another country”.
On October 17 Iran Justice announced that the number of people who died in the fire in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran has reached 8.
In the country protest actions continue. 22 years old Mahsa Amini Iran has been rocked by protests since her death after allegedly being detained by the morality police for not tying her hijab properly.
President Ibrahim Chief and accused Washington of inciting chaos. Before that USA President Cho Biden expressed support for the protests that have been going on for five weeks.
The details of the fire in his house are not known. Both in this prison political prisonersas well as protesters who oppose the government are detained.
“Mizan” of Justice news agency injured prisoners said that there were new losses among
All the dead are said to have been detained on theft charges. Mizan incident “prisoners a fight between and fire“, but did not show evidence to substantiate this claim. Activists living outside Iran were skeptical of the government’s claims.
USA government 2018blacklisted this prison for “serious human rights violations”.
Scale 10 He notes that his prisoner has been hospitalized, four of them are in serious condition. According to the information of the agency, some prisoners tried to escape, but did not succeed.
According to the information obtained by the RFE/RL reporter, on October 15, an uprising started in the 7th cell of Evini. Those detained during the last protests are located near this cell.
Europe The leading diplomat of the Union Joseph Borrel expressed “very serious concern” about the incident and called for “maximum transparency about the situation”.
Borrel tweeted on October 16 that Iran authorities are responsible for the lives of “all detainees, including human rights defenders and EU citizens”.
Some prisoners, including a well-known film director Jafar Panahi they called their families and said they were safe. Panahi said that he used tear gas from the prison.
American citizen detained at home Siamek Prayer also contacted his family and said that he was moved to a safe place in his house.
Namazi was sentenced to seven years in prison on espionage charges. Washington calls the accusations baseless.
Biden on October 15 in the western state of Oregon, he said that he was surprised by the courage of those who took to the streets to protest in Iran.
According to him, Iran his government is “very oppressive”, his “in the streets protest he has great respect for those who do.”
Tehran called these words interference in Iran’s internal affairs.
President of Iran Chief He accused Biden of “inciting chaos, terror and destruction in another country”.
“The plan of the enemy must be prevented by effective measures that will solve the problems of the population”, – said the chief.
Judge Authorities said Amini died of “other illnesses,” but witnesses said he was beaten while in custody.