On July 2, 1404, the Israeli army, attacked Evin Prison and severely destroyed the guard, administrative, and judicial departments of Evin, the women’s ward, the medical building, and the library of ward four. According to the regime’s judiciary, at least seventy-nine people, including administrative employees, conscripts, prisoners, and families of prisoners who had visited the prison for visits or legal proceedings, were among the dead.
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It is said that two points in Evin Prison were targeted by the Zionist army of Israel. One of the attacks took place near the “Martyr Moqaddas Courthouse,” below the main entrance to Evin Prison, which damaged the courthouse, the outer wall of the prison, some administrative buildings, and the library building. The other explosion occurred on the northeast side of the prison and near the “Martyr Kochoei Judicial Complex,” which is close to the prison’s in-person visits building and residential buildings.
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As a result of this terrorist attack on Evin Prison, the political prisoners were transferred to two other prisons the day after the attack, with threats and violence, and handcuffed and shackled. The women prisoners in the women’s ward were transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin, and the male prisoners in Ward 4 were transferred to the Greater Tehran Prison (Fashafoyeh). The women’s ward housed about 60 political-security prisoners, and Ward 4 housed about 70 political-security and dual-nationality prisoners.
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After this attack, the prison atmosphere became extremely tense and tense. After the attack, the regime’s repressive forces, from the Special Unit to the Nopo and the prison guard, arrived at the prison before the rescue forces and stationed themselves in front of the women’s ward on a high hill, telling them that they would be shot if they came near the window. In this situation, the women prisoners were forced to clean their ward themselves, parts of which had been damaged by the bombing, and since the health care was disrupted, they had to take care of the wounded themselves. The prison’s water, gas, and telephone had also been cut off.
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Rescuers’ account of the attack on Evin Prison