Qarchak Prison

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Verified 29 May 2026

Aging · 5mo ago

Sources last reviewed on 29 May 2026

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Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)
Photo by Tahmineh Rahmani via Wikimedia Commons (Attribution)

Capacity

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Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

2010

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 29 May 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Operator

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Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

2010

Region

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Security level

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Death-row facility

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.

Notable inmates

Zeynab Jalaliyan
1982 · entrepreneur
Zeynab Jalalian (Persian: Ø²ÙÙØ¨ Ø¬ÙØ§ÙÙØ§Ù; born March 10, 1982, in Dim Qeshlaq, Maku County) is a Kurdish Iranian who has been convicted a mohareb and sentenced to death by an Islamic Revolutionary Court for allegedly being a member of the Kurdish militant group PJAK, which she denies.
Nasrin Sotoudeh
1963 · lawyer
Nasrin Sotoudeh Langarudi (Persian: ÙØ³Ø±ÛÙ Ø³ØªÙØ¯Ù ÙÙÚ¯Ø±ÙØ¯Û; born 1963) is an Iranian human rights lawyer known for her defense of activists, opposition politicians, and individuals facing human rights violations.
Forough Alaei
1989 · photographer
Forough Alaei (Persian: ÙØ±ÙØº Ø¹ÙØ§Ø¦Û; born 1989) is an Iranian documentary photographer and photojournalist.
Shokoufeh Yadollahi
1969 · psychologist
Kylie Moore-Gilbert
1987 · memoirist
Kylie Moore-Gilbert is an Australian-British academic in Middle Eastern political science.

Source: Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Contact & address

No public contact details available.

Conditions Risk Score

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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
Wikidata (Q20110355)
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
See /data-sources for our overall methodology.

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Qarchak Prison. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/qarchak-prison

Chicago

"Qarchak Prison." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/qarchak-prison.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-qarchak-prison,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Qarchak Prison},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/qarchak-prison},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}