HRANA News Agency – Prisoners of the Central Prison of Tehran protested against the poor conditions, at the time of being transferred to this prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), More than five hundred prisoners who had recently been transferred to the Central Prison of Tehran, protested against the poor conditions and lack of basic facilities, on Thursday evening, 30^th July.
One of HRANA’s sources, regarding the reasons of prisoners’ protest said: “Being held in the prison yard under the sun from 9 am to 13 pm, terrible hygiene status in the bathroom without sleeves and tankard, power outage of gas and water and the lack of air conditioning in this heat, lack of medical attention and specific treatment to specific patients, and that any complaint is suppressed by the prison guard, also there are only 240 beds for 542 people who are held there, and the rest of them have to sleep next to the toilets and in the corridors.”
Prison guards answered the prisoners’ protests by beating and shaving a prisoner’s hair, named Abbas Ahoonbar, who was one of the prisoners that started the protests.
It should be noted that the Central Prison of Tehran is under construction and is slated to receive 15,000 prisoners of Tehran’s jurisdiction. The prisoners from Evin and Ghezelhesar prison will be transferred into this prison.