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Iranian prison guards break knees of woman, 70, locked up in notorious Evin jail

Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was brutally battered during interrogation after being sentenced to 10 years in Tehran's notorious Evin jail - which also housed freed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - for anti-government protests

Daily Mirror

Freed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah still unable to leave Iran

Six French nationals remain imprisoned in Iran. A seventh, the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, is no longer behind bars, having been released from Tehran's Evin prison in February. But the Iranian authorities have refused to return her identity papers, making it impossible for her to travel.

Radio France Internationale

Iran Rearrests Female Activist Hours After her Release

Iranian security forces rearrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ali Khamenei, activists said Thursday. Gholian, 28, was freed Wednesday from Tehran's Evin prison after spending over four years behind bars following a conviction related to her reporting…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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American detained in Iran launches hunger strike to mark seven years in captivity

‘I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history’

The Independent UK

Iran Detains Celebrity Chef Who Posted 'Cutlets' Video on Suleimani Anniversary

Iran has detained a prominent chef and Instagram influencer, known for his videos promoting Persian cooking, in its crackdown on nationwide protests, human rights groups and supporters said on Thursday. Navab Ebrahimi was arrested in Tehran on Wednesday and taken to the city's Evin prison, the Human Rights Activists News…

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‘I have to control the flashbacks’: Anoosheh Ashoori on life after being freed from an Iranian jail

The British Iranian was released from prison after five years in March. The 68-year-old is cherishing time with family and has run the London marathon - but his ordeal still haunts him

The Guardian - UK

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison

The Iranian authorities sentenced Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to 28 years in prison, according to a spokesman for his family. Vandecasteele, 41, was arrested in Iran at the end of February and was once held in Evin prison over "fabricated series of crimes" on suspicion of espionage. Belgium and…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Inside notorious and deadly Iran prison as prisoner shares 12-hour interrogations

Anoosheh Ashoori was sentenced to spent time at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, in August 2017 where he spent nearly five years - he returned to the UK in March of this year

Daily Mirror

Iran's Prisons 'Torturing Families': Husband of Jailed Activist

Prize-winning Iranian human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, currently jailed in Tehran's Evin prison as protests grip the country, has not seen her 16-year-old twins for seven years. She has not met her husband Taghi Rahmani, himself a veteran of Iranian jails but now living in exile in Paris, for the…

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Exclusive-Deadly Iran jail fire erupted as police clashed with inmates, sources say

Two days before a fire ripped through a section of Iran's Evin prison and killed at least eight people, a riot police unit arrived at the compound and began to patrol the corridors, shouting "God is Greatest" and banging batons on cell doors, six sources told Reuters.

Reuters

Elnaz Rekabi: Iranian climber posts Instagram ‘apology’ for competing without hijab

The athlete said not wearing a headscarf was ‘unintentional’

The Independent UK

Americans detained in Iran accounted for after fire at Evin prison

U.S. citizens detained in Iran are accounted for and safe after the fire at Evin prison, U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters on Monday.

Reuters

Factbox-Who are the foreign nationals held in Iran's Evin prison?

A fire at Iran's Evin prison on Oct. 15 that killed eight people has ramped up pressure on clerical rulers who are already struggling to contain nationwide protests ignited by the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody.

Reuters

Iran's prison fire death toll rises to eight -judiciary

Eight prisoners died as a result of a fire at Tehran's Evin prison over the weekend, Iran's judiciary said on Monday, doubling the toll in an incident that has increased pressure on a government already facing protests over a woman's death in police custody.

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Daily Mirror

4 prisoners killed and 61 injured as huge fire sweeps through Evin prison in Iran

Four prisoners at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, have died and 61 others treated for injuries due to a fire as the country enters its fifth week of anti-government protests following the death of Mahsa Amini

The Guardian - UK

Blaze at Iran’s notorious Evin prison put out after fight and gunshots reported

Witness say special forces joined firefighters at prison blacklisted by US for human rights abuses

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Eight died in a fire at Iran's Evin prison, which holds political prisoners

Iran's judiciary raised the death toll Monday in a blaze at Tehran's notorious Evin prison, saying that at least eight prisoners were killed as protests continue nationwide.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Siamak Namazi Returns to Prison in Iran

Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi was forced to return to Tehran's Evin prison on Wednesday after Iranian authorities had given him a furlough on Oct. 1 and let his elderly father leave Iran for medical treatment on Oct. 5, their lawyer said. Namazi, who in 2016 was convicted of espionage-related…

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Iranian American Siamak Namazi returns to prison in Iran

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US Denies Releasing Iranian Funds Held Abroad in Exchange for Setting Namazi Free

The Biden administration has welcomed Iran allowing the US-Iranian dual national Bagher Namazi to leave the country after having banned him from travel for seven years but denied that the release was linked to unfreezing Iranian funds in South Korea. Namazi’s son, Siamak Namazi, was also granted a provisional release…

The Guardian - US

Iranian American held in Tehran for seven years granted temporary release

Siamak Namazi, convicted along with father on espionage charges freed from Evin prison on one-week renewable furlough

Reuters

U.S. citizen allowed to leave Iranian prison for a week

Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years on espionage-related charges rejected by Washington as baseless, has been allowed out of Tehran's Evin prison on a one-week furlough, his lawyer said on Saturday.

The Independent UK

Father who survived prison ‘hell’ in Iran set to run the London Marathon

Anoosheh Ashoori survived the ‘valley of hell’ in Iran’s Evin prison and is now training to run the London Marathon.

The Guardian - UK

Anoosheh Ashoori: London Marathon dream of Iran detainee nears reality

British-Iranian who set goal while at notorious Evin prison says he wants ‘something good to come out of all that pain’

The Guardian - UK

‘The Foreign Office has forgotten us’: Morad Tahbaz’s daughter speaks out on him still being incarcerated in Iran

He should have been sent home with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in March, yet Moran Tahbaz is still being held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Now his eldest daughter Roxanne is demanding action

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