A bunch of feminine political prisoners incarcerated in Iran’s infamous Evin jail have revealed a letter expressing concern concerning the circumstances they endure on the establishment.

Signed by Hasti Amiri, Narges Adib, Fariba Asadi, Sepideh Gholian, Gelareh Abbasi, Saba Kordafshari, Alieh Motlebzadeh, Narges Mohammadi, and different prisoners, the letter emphasizes considerations over a pointy rise within the variety of inmates and worries concerning the unfold of the coronavirus within the ladies’s ward.

The signatories to the letter famous that the dearth of appropriate area for isolating and quarantining contaminated inmates is endangering the lives of everybody within the jail.

The Evin jail — and plenty of different penal establishments in Iran — has a protracted historical past of poor circumstances.

In March, hacktivist group Edalat-e Ali, which claims to work inside Iran to show the “true face of the regime,” launched video footage highlighting inhumane circumstances within the nation’s most-notorious jail.

The footage, supplied completely to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda by Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice), exhibits prisoners mendacity wall to wall on flooring and stacked three-high on metallic bunk beds. Because the digicam strikes from open cell to open cell, every outfitted with beds for about 30 inmates, it reveals rooms crammed with as much as 50 inmates.

Earlier movies, which had been hacked from CCTV cameras and revealed by Radio Farda amongst different media retailers in 2021, have proven jail guards assaulting detainees and inhumane circumstances on the facility.

Paperwork leaked by the hacktivist group have detailed how Evin jail authorities took harsh steps to interrupt starvation strikes by outstanding prisoners, together with the denial of visitation rights and blocking telephone entry.

The movies prompted the top of Iran’s Prisons Group to problem an apology and take duty for the “unacceptable habits” on the jail, whereas judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei ordered an investigation.

Written by Ardeshir Tayebi primarily based on an authentic story in Persian by RFE/RL’s Radio Farda