Tehran: Eight dead from the fire in Evin prison

Eight prisoners died in fire which occurred on Saturday night in Tehran’s Evin Prison, according to a new report released today by the judicial authority.

A previous report spoke of four dead and 61 injured, four of them in serious condition.

“Four people (injured) died in hospital after their condition worsened, bringing the death toll to eight,” the judicial authority’s Mizan Online website said, without specifying whether they succumbed to smoke inhalation like the first four who died. .

All the dead were convicted of theft, according to the same source.

The Iranian authorities they accused on Saturday night “troublemakers” who “set fire to a clothing warehouse” inside the large prison complex and spoke of clashes between prisoners and then between prisoners and prison guards, who intervened to stop the violence.

The fire was brought under control and “the situation has returned to normal”, they said afterwards.

Images broadcast by local media showed Saturday night huge flames and thick smoke to rise from the prison, located in the northern part of the Iranian capital.

The official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that these incidents they had “no relation” with the protests following the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Amini, 22, continuing for a fifth week.

The young Iranian of Kurdish origin she surrendered three days after she was arrested in Tehran by morality police who accused her of violating the country’s strict dress code requiring women to wear the hijab.

Evin prisons hold people arrested during the protest movement as well as foreigners or people with dual citizenship, such as French-Iranian university student Fariba Adelkah, who is imprisoned in their women’s section. American Samak Namazi is also there. All are fine, according to their families.

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