Family members and protesters demand answers over blaze that state media reports left 61 injured
Family members and protesters gathered outside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Sunday after a fire engulfed some of the building the night before, leading to the deaths of a minimum four prisoners and injuring a further 61.
Many of those arrested in the current spate of street protests over the death in custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, were taken to the jail in the Iranian capital. The official state news agency reported the Tehran governor, Mohsen Mansouri, as saying the incident started after a fight broke out among prisoners.
Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, said: “The fire in Evin prison may be out, our attention to the people held there and their human rights cannot and will not stop. The Iranian government bears responsibility for all those imprisoned there – including many political prisoners and demonstrators.”
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