Nobel laureate raises alarm over Evin inmate transfers after Israeli strike
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has raised alarm over the fate of detainees moved from Tehran's Evin Prison after Israel's strike on the facility, saying many held in intelligence-run wards were transferred to unknown locations with no information about their condition.
“Men and women held in solitary confinement in Ward 209 were taken out of Evin in gray prison uniforms and loaded into vehicles,” Mohammadi said in a post on X. “Since then, there has been no information about the whereabouts or conditions of detainees held in Evin’s high-security wards.”
She said there has been no official word on the status of detainees from Wards 209 and 240 (run by the Ministry of Intelligence), Ward 2-A (controlled by the Revolutionary Guards), and Ward 241 (under Judiciary's Intelligence). Mohammadi warned that prisoners could have been taken to "secret or illegal detention sites, cut off from the outside world."
She added that inmates from Evin’s general wards have been relocated, with women sent to Qarchak Prison and men to Greater Tehran Prison — “both notorious for their harsh and inhumane conditions.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has named nine members killed in an Israeli strike on the Seyyed al-Shohada base in Tehran province, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
The strike occurred earlier in the week, with the IRGC releasing the names several days later. Those killed were identified as Hassan Khansari, Soheil Rostamian, Sirous Moradi, Saeed Aslani, Mohsen Barkan, Majid Zarei, Mohammad Javad Borhani, Ali Abbasi, and conscript Soheil Lotfizadeh.
