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Horrible conditions in Iran’s prisons

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, July 10, 2020—A recent report by Iran’s state-run Etemad online reveals a small corner of the disastrous situation inside Tehran big prison, Fashafouyeh.

Also know as the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary, the facility has about 13,950 inmates on charges of corruption, rejection of property, theft, alcoholic drinks, fraud, smuggling, forging, transfer of other people's property and acquisition of illegal property.

The prison has five sections, which the prisoners call “brigades.” In this prison, no one gets any advice, nor they will repent, but a prisoner said: “The people come into this prison as lizards and leave as alligators.”

The first and fourth “brigades” are dedicated to units of theft, mischief, and punishments. Unit two and five are dedicated to the financial convicts. Unit 3 is the quarantine for the newcomers. Unit one has 5,000 prisoners. Unit two, 2,000 prisoners. Unit three has 2,000. Unit 4 has ,5000, and Unit 5 has 3,000 prisoners.

The distribution of the primitive facilities such as beds, fridges, TVs, and a washing machine don’t follow any standard rules in these units.

These facilities are not even enough to accommodate a fifth of current prisoners. The prison was constructed in 2000 and was considered for 15,000 prisoners.

But now this 100-hectare 20-year-old prison is reported to be a lucrative business “bed dealing”, where the newcomers must wait a week for washing and bathing.

It’s also reported that in Fashafouyeh prison, some “high-profile” prisoners don’t have a bed and sometimes more than 200 people are sleeping on the ground.

Two of the prisoners said that they are “forced to sleep side by side like books in a bookshelf” and that the “bed dealing” is a prevalent phenomenon in all the sections of the prison. The total rate of bed deposit is 40 million rials. This is more common in the section of the financial convicts because in other parts of the prison the people are so poor that they struggle to buy potable water.

The section of financial convicts includes intellectuals, doctors, professors, and managers. Some of them have finished their sentences, but the regime’s judges refuse to release them.

“We had here someone who spent 27 years in prison. He entered prison at the age of 40, and at the age of 67, he left this prison in a burial shroud,” Etemad Online wrote in its report.

The prison is rife with all kinds of mafias. Ther’s a mafia for beds, a mafia for medicine, for postage, for the bath, and of course for the toilet. One prisoner said that the only thing left is a mafia for breathing air. The key to solving all the problems in this unpainted city is cigarettes.

Cigarettes are the prison’s currency. With enough cigarettes, you can displace a prison guard. Anything you can imagine, the cigarette can do for you.

One prisoner said that a trip to the bathroom will cost you 10 cigarette butts. For bathing, you give a box of cigarettes.

The prison is riddled with different diseases including scabies, flu, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and AIDS. Everyone is depressed, psychotic, and insane, and relieve their pains with methadone.

And what’s important is that these revelations are made by a publication that is tightly controlled by the regime. The real situation is much worse, especially for political prisoners, who are being tortured in different ways by the regime.

Previously the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) website reported about the harsh condition of Iran’s prisons during the pandemic. In April and May, a very disturbing image of the novel coronavirus spreading in the regime’s prisons was reported that had led to protests and riots in prisons across the country.

Also, the Iranian genius student and political prisoner Ali Younesi has contracted coronavirus in prison.

Ali Younesi and another student, Amir Hossein Moradi, went missing on April 10. After 26 days, the Iranian regime’s judiciary admitted to having apprehended them and holding them in custody for having links with the MEK.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has repeatedly “called on the international community to dispatch a fact-finding mission to Iran’s prisons and collect information about the inmates, especially those individuals who have disappeared and are injured following the November 2019 nationwide uprising, and now those suffering from COVID-19.”

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