IRAN: RIOTS AND FIRES IN IRANIAN PRISONS.(Brief Article)

From: IPR Strategic Business Information Database | Date: January 6, 2003 | Copyright information

Clashes between convicts and guards occurred at the Karun 4 prison in Ahvaz, where 300 inmates tried to prevent the transfer of a prisoner to the execution site, "Entekhab" newspaper reported on 31 December. The prisoner faced the death penalty for killing a policeman during a robbery. The riot spread as protesters set fires in the prison, but security forces regained control and relocated some of the protesters to a prison in Bandar-i Imam. A 30 December fire in a prison in northeastern Gorgan Province killed 27 inmates and injured 50 others, according to IRNA. The head of ...

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