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Coronavirus outbreak: riots at two Iran prisons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iranian inmates in danger of being exposed\nto the coronavirus rebelled at Aligudarz Central Prison, disarmed some prison\nofficials, and tried to escape on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clashes continued<\/a>\nfor several hours, moving outside of prison as several inmates escaped, and\nresulted in the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) being called in. Several prisoners\nwere killed or wounded when the repressive forces began shooting, with some\nguards also wounded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the state-run Mehr news agency\nreported the regime\u2019s story that no one escaped, only\none prisoner was killed, and only one was wounded. This is an example of the\nregime trying to appear in control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The previous day, around 250 inmates at Parsilon\nPrison of Khorramabad rebelled, disarmed the guards, and managed to escape, but\nthe guards and the repressive forces shot at the fleeing inmates, killing 40 of\nthem and wounding 40 to 50 others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is hard to get accurate numbers, with\nseveral conflicting sources. One soldier who was present said that one prisoner\nwas killed and 40 to 50 were wounded, while locals say that 40 were killed and\n130 escaped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The authorities are trying to re-arrest the\nescapees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A former Parsilon inmate said<\/a>:\n\u201cPrisoners escaped because they are treated like animals in this prison.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He advised that inmates are forced to pay\nconsiderably higher bails than at other prisons, which cased at least one young\nman \u2013 Ramin Biranvand \u2013 to die from suicide last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inmate also explained that sewing lips\nand hunger strikes are common among inmates in this prison, but that these\nbrave protesters \u201care thrown into cages out in the\nfreezing cold weather\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many inmates across Iran are infected with\nCoronavirus and are unable to self-isolate, which can (and will) lead to\nhundreds of thousands of deaths unless the regime releases many more prisoners,\nespecially political prisoners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation is dire because the majority\nof prisons in Iran were already overcrowded by two to three times their capacity\nand lacking in hygiene, with guards refusing to quarantine coronavirus\npatients. It is the same all across Iran, from the Greater Tehran Penitentiary\nto Ghezel Hesar Prison to Evin Prison to Qarchak Women\u2019s Prison and dozens more\nprisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maryam Rajavi, the President of the\u00a0National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)<\/a>, has repeatedly warned of a major catastrophe brewing in Iranian prisons and frequently urged the international community to take urgent action to ensure the release of prisoners to prevent thousands of deaths.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"