A new report from the PMOI’s social headquarters inside Iran has exposed the harrowing aftermath of the regime’s recent purge of Evin Prison, revealing a campaign of deliberate cruelty masked by sheer incompetence.
The details paint a damning picture of a cornered and fearful regime, led by its desperate supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, lashing out at political prisoners with chaotic violence. The forced transfer of hundreds of inmates on June 23 to notoriously brutal detention centers was not a managed security operation, but a panicked move that reveals the rot at the core of the ruling theocracy.
According to the PMOI’s network, the situation inside Evin was utterly disheveled. The prison’s chief, the notorious henchman Hedayat Farzadi, was so panicked that he had no official list of the prisoners being transferred. He was forced to go from person to person, asking their names to create a makeshift roster. In total, some 2,000 prisoners were forcibly relocated from Evin to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, also known as Fashafouyeh, including 180 political prisoners from Ward 4 who were packed onto buses with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
The appalling reality of Fashafouyeh and Qarchak
The conditions awaiting the prisoners confirm the regime’s punitive intent. The PMOI report highlights a campaign of systematic deprivation designed to break the prisoners’ will. Severe food shortages are an immediate and pressing problem; on their first day, prisoners were given only a single meal, served in a plastic bag without even a spoon. The cells have been dangerously and deliberately overcrowded, with 40 prisoners crammed by force into rooms designed for half that number, compelling them to sleep on the bare floor.
Sanitation has been weaponized to inflict maximum misery. A single toilet and wash basin are available for an estimated 80 inmates, creating an unlivable and disease-ridden environment. Meanwhile, female political prisoners exiled to the infamous Qarchak Prison in Varamin face a grave threat to their health due to a complete lack of basic facilities, and have been cruelly denied any contact with their families. This is not neglect; it is a calculated strategy of abuse.
A familiar playbook: setting the stage for a massacre
This prison purge is not an isolated event. It is a terrifyingly familiar tactic from the regime’s playbook of crimes against humanity. By forcibly relocating political prisoners to remote, high-security hellholes under the cynical pretext of an external threat, the regime is setting the stage for a new massacre. This strategy is identical to the one used in the spring of 1988, when the regime transferred thousands of PMOI supporters, claiming it was for their safety during wartime. Months later, those same prisoners were systematically executed in the 1988 massacre. The regime is once again using the “fog of war” as a shield to isolate its opponents, making them vulnerable to torture, abuse, and execution far from the public eye.
A warning and an urgent call to action
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in a statement on June 25, 2025, called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on Iran, and all international human rights bodies to condemn this brutality and act immediately to save the prisoners’ lives. The Iranian Resistance renews its demand for an international fact-finding mission to visit Iran’s prisons and speak directly with the inmates. The world must not be a silent bystander. It must intervene now, before it is too late.