A warehouse disguised as an industrial facility in Shahin Shahr, Isfahan, is being used as a secret prison where hundreds of Iranian inmates are held in inhuman conditions under the management of a Revolutionary Guards cooperative, the Iran Human Rights Society said on Tuesday.
“In recent weeks, multiple reports have surfaced about a facility in Shahin Shahr officially designated as a ‘prison employment site,’ which in practice has become a warehouse for holding hundreds of inmates in harsh, inhuman conditions,” the group said.
The facility is described as a large warehouse with a small yard fenced off with barbed wire, lacking the basic standards of an official prison. Photographs published by the group show the area but do not provide verifiable coordinates due to concealment and security measures.
“Despite its name, no job training or rehabilitation takes place there. Instead, around 100 prisoners are bussed out daily from 5 a.m. and put to work in conditions resembling forced labor.”
Iran International can not independently verify the report.
Harsh conditions and deprivation
Prisoners endure overcrowding without cooling or ventilation systems, the rights group added. Water and electricity are cut for three days each week, and detainees are given only minimal food.
“Food and bread are provided in very small and poor-quality amounts… daily rations are just two loaves of bread and low-quality food.”
No medical services are available, and the only drugs regularly distributed are sedatives and methadone, pushing many inmates to forced consumption, wrote the Iran Human Rights Society.
“Reports from Shahin Shahr prison paint a disturbing picture of a hidden and illegal detention site… a place for added deprivation, forced labor, and psychological and physical pressure,” the report said, urging international bodies to press Iran to meet its human rights obligations.
