Evin Prison
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Photo by Koosha Mahshid Falahi via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Koosha Mahshid Falahi via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Koosha Mahshid Falahi via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Koosha Mahshid Falahi via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Koosha Mahshid Falahi via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Koosha Mahshid Falahi via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Background
Evin Prison (Persian: زندان اوین, romanized: Zendân-e-Evin) is a prison located in the Evin neighborhood of Tehran, Iran. Established in 1972, and particularly notorious since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, it has become the Islamic Republic's most infamous detention facility. The prison serves as the primary site for incarcerating political prisoners, journalists, academics, human rights activists, dual nationals, and foreign citizens accused of espionage or propaganda offenses. The prison has become internationally known for its systematic human rights abuses. Numerous reports document torture methods such as beatings, electric shocks, mock executions, prolonged solitary confinement, forced confessions, sleep deprivation, and sexual abuse.
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Capacity
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1963
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1963
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.