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Evin Prison

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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

320

Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

1963

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Operator

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Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1963

Region

District 2

Security level

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

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Mailing

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Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Notable inmates

  • Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof
    Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof
    1951 · journalist

    Yousef Azizi (Bani-Torof) (born April 21, 1951 in Susangerd, Iran) is an Iranian Arab journalist living in exile in London, United Kingdom.

  • Sattar Beheshti
    1977–2012 · blogger
  • Mansour Osanlou
    Mansour Osanlou
    1960 · worker

    Mansour Osanlou (Persian: منصور اسانلو) is a trade union activist in Iran, where he was imprisoned several times from 2005 to 2008.

  • Mitra Farahani
    Mitra Farahani
    1975 · film director

    Mitra Farahani (in Persian: میترا فراهانی; born 1975) is an Iranian filmmaker and painter who currently lives in Paris.

  • Kamran Ghaderi
    ? · businessperson

    Kamran Ghaderi (Persian: کامران قادری) is an Iranian-Austrian businessman who was imprisoned in Iran until 2023.

  • Nahid Taghavi
    1954
  • Fariba Adelkhah
    Fariba Adelkhah
    1959 · anthropologist

    Fariba Adelkhah (Persian: فریبا عادلخواه; born 25 April 1959) is a French-Iranian anthropologist and academic at Sciences Po who was imprisoned in Iran from 2019 until 2023.

  • Ahmad Batebi
    Ahmad Batebi
    1977 · journalist

    Ahmad Batebi (Persian: احمد باطبی; born July 25, 1977) is an Iranian activist who was designated a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International.

  • Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
    1978 · public relations executive

    Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe (née Zaghari; Persian: نازنین زاغری; born 26 December 1978) is an Iranian-British dual citizen who was detained in Iran from 3 April 2016 to 16 March 2022 as part of a long-running dispute between Britain and Iran.

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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Evin Prison. Retrieved October 15, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/evin-prison
Chicago
"Evin Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 15, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/evin-prison.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-evin-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Evin Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/evin-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-15}
}