Overview

• Human Rights Watch concluded that the June 23 strike on Tehran’s Evin prison violated the laws of war and constituted an apparent war crime based on satellite imagery, videos and eyewitness accounts.
• Survivors were shackled, beaten with batons and subjected to electric shocks by security forces during transfers and upon return to the damaged facility.
• Many detainees were moved into overcrowded, insect-infested cells at Qarchak and Fashafouyeh prisons with inadequate access to clean water, hygiene facilities and medical care.
• Iranian authorities refused to disclose the fate or whereabouts of some prisoners, including Swedish-Iranian Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, in what Human Rights Watch describes as enforced disappearance.
• On August 8, authorities moved several death-row inmates to Ghezel Hesar prison, prompting calls to suspend their executions and grant immediate consular access.