Kylie Moore-Gilbert predicts revolution in Iran as her former prison burns | HatAlexander
Kylie Moore-Gilbert watched the prison that held her for 804 days on trumped-up espionage charges become the burning epicentre of Iran’s civil unrest on Sunday, gripped by concern for her former inmates and with the growing sense that Iran was in the early throes of a revolution.
“You’ve got huge plumes of smoke and guards projecting missiles into the prison, presumably to try and prevent a mass breakout or put a lid on the unrest. The idea of being locked in a ward and smelling fire and smoke and hearing uproar around you and not knowing what’s going on or not being able to escape or get out or protect yourself must be terrifying.”
The prison fire occurred as protesters intensified anti-government demonstrations along main streets and at universities in some cities across Iran on Saturday. Human rights monitors reported hundreds dead, including children, as the movement concluded its fourth week.
Moore-Gilbert was kept in solitary confinement during her time at Evin. But she saw other wards crowded with hundreds of prisoners and only one or two guards, who could easily be overpowered. Once, while she was in Qarchak prison, the prisoners rioted by banging on doors and chanting slogans. A couple of weeks later, by which time she had left that prison, police entered the ward and beat up the prisoners.
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