Confession of the Director of the Regime's Prisons Organization on the Arrest of More Than 5,000 People, During the Uprising

an Uprising - No. 69

The anti-human clerical regime launched a show visit to Evin prison on January 30, by a number of the regime’s members of Parliament, to cover the disgrace of the crimes against humanity regarding the uprising prisoners, which is increasing each and every day. This show took place while with the killing of Khaled Qaisari under torture in Kermanshah Prison, the number of those who were martyred under torture reaches to at least 12.

Eleven members of the Parliament, after three weeks of design, preparation and postponement, were eventually taken to Evin Prison on January 30. Although this handpicked delegation had been banned from talking freely about its observations, some of them have revealed new corners of the regime's crimes about the detainees of the January uprising.

Alireza Rahimi, member of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the regime, on Friday, February 2, quoted the criminal director of the Prisons Organization, Asghar Jahangir, as saying: "The total number of prisoners in January events was 4972,.73.94% of whom were men and 27.5% were women. 438 people are still in detention. In addition, 55 people are detained in the Ministry of Intelligence (Ilna News Agency – February 2).

There is no need to explain that the actual figure of the arrested and the detainees is much higher; on the one hand, the head of the Prisons Organization is trying to portray the number of arrests much less than reality; on the other hand, many prisons, detention centers, secret and safe houses belonging to the Ministry of Intelligence, the Revolutionary Guard Corps the IRGC's intelligence and other repressive forces are not under the control of the Prisons Organization, and Jahangir does not mention them.

One of the goals of the regime in organizing this visit was to cover up the killing of brave young Sina Ghanbari under torture and to record the ridiculous lie of the regime about his suicide. But Mohammad Kazemi, one of the visiting MPs, said: "There is not much information about Sina Ghanbari's method and causes of suicide, and until now, the visit of the representatives has not revealed the mystery of his death."

https://ncr-iran.org/en/ncri-statements/iran-protests/24293-senior-prison-official-admits-to-arrest-of-more-than-5-000-people-including-1-400-women-during-the-protests