The Israeli attack on Monday, which targeted Evin prison in Tehran, in the middle of the war against Iran, left 71 dead, reported, on Sunday, June 29, the spokesman for the Iranian judiciary, Asghar Jahangir, at 6e day of ceasefire between the two enemy countries.
Opponents and foreign or binational prisoners, including French, were detained in this ultra -secure prison center, located at the foot of the mountain in the north of Tehran, at the time of the Israeli strikes. The Nobel Peace Prize Narges Mohammadi had notably been incarcerated there for many years.
Among the victims are prison administrative staff, soldiers, prisoners, relatives who came to visit them but also residents living near the establishment, Jahangir said.
Photos of the penitentiary complex disseminated by Iranian justice show ripped walls, collapsed ceilings and lots of train rubble that shovels are unlocked. “The health center” et “The parlor” were notably targeted, said the judiciary.
French detainees “would not have been affected”
The Iranian judicial power announced Tuesday that it “Transferred” Towards other prisons from the province of Tehran of the prisoners of Evin, without specifying their number or their identity, in the aftermath of the Israeli bombardment of this penitentiary of the capital. Evin housed around 70 political prisoners and some 300 political prisoners.
The French Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris, detained for three years in Evin, “Would not have been affected”said the chief of French diplomacy on Monday, Jean-Noël Barrot, judging “Unacceptable” Israeli shot.
Professor of letters aged 40, Cécile Kohler, from eastern France, and her companion, Jacques Paris, 72, retired professor of mathematics, were arrested on May 7, 2022, on the last day of a tourist trip to Iran. They have since accused of“Espionage”an allegation that their entourage rejects. French authorities consider them as “State hostages”.
Amnesty International had condemned Israeli strikes on Evin, describing them as “Deeply disturbing” and that can constitute a “War crime”.
