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On Saturday,\u00a0<\/span>Iranian<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>regime<\/span>\u2019<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0President Hassan Rouhani acknowledged that in one Iranian prison, 100 out of 120 inmates became infected with Covid-19 before authorities were even able to recognize that the coronavirus<\/a> had been introduced to the population. It was a shocking admission coming from a president \u2013 and an entire regime \u2013 that has been reflexively dishonest about almost every single aspect of the global pandemic\u2019s impact on his country.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the days before Rouhani spoke on the prison outbreak, the\u00a0<\/span>regime<\/span>\u00a0Ministry of Health reported that the number of fatal cases of Covid-19 had surpassed 6,000 in\u00a0<\/span>Iran<\/span>. But this number is widely suspected to be a deliberate undercount, and some sources indicate that the real death toll is several times greater. On\u00a0<\/span>Monday<\/span>, the National Council of Resistance of Iran<\/a><\/span>\u00a0(NCRI)<\/span>\u00a0reported that the number of fatalities had reached 40,<\/span>7<\/span>00 across 31<\/span>6<\/span>\u00a0cities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As well as keeping track of the overall impact, the NCRI<\/a> has been sounding alarms about the dire condition of Iranian prisons, while dispelling the regime\u2019s own efforts at damage control. The Iranian\u00a0<\/span>regime\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>judiciary has claimed, at various times, to have released as many as 100,000 prisoners on bail as part of an effort to slow down the spread of the disease. But at the same time, authorities have generally denied that outbreaks in prison were a serious problem.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rouhani\u2019s statement on Saturday directly invalidating this latter claim. It also indirectly cast further doubt on the official narrative about the status of prison populations. If a single vector for the novel coronavirus was able to spread the infection to 100 people before the outbreak was even recognized, it stands to reason that the facility in question remained severely overcrowded at a time whe<\/span>n the judiciary claimed to have furloughed upwards of one-third of the entire country\u2019s prison population.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Even before the entire world was in the grip of a pandemic, the overcrowding in Iranian prisons was notably inhumane. Close confines were known to exacerbate the effects of poor sanitation, lack of access to medical treatment, and a range of other harsh conditions stemming sometimes from simple neglect and sometimes from a malicious impulse toward extrajudicial punishment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Denial of medical services is regularly identified as a tactic used by regime authorities to put pressure on political prisoners and other inmates who are deemed unruly or problematic. Many individuals have died as a result, while others have suffered permanent health effects including organ failure and amputation as a result of untreated cancers and other ailments.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One can easily imagine how prevalent this sort of neglect has become\u00a0in the midst of\u00a0coronavirus outbreaks. As more information becomes available about the effects of that disease,\u00a0it is clear that it\u00a0does more than just kill the elderly and infirm. Even younger patients have been known to experience strokes and hemorrhaging brought on by Covid-19, and among those who have recovered, many are expected to suffer from permanently reduced lung function.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is all true even within countries that have competent governments and well-run health systems, as well as prison facilities that generally abide by international human rights standards.\u00a0<\/span>None of this applies to\u00a0<\/span>Iran<\/span>. Iranian doctors and nurses have routinely risked arrest to make citizens aware of a situation that is being covered up by the clerical regime, in which hospitals are overwhelmed and hundreds of people are dying across multiple cities\u00a0on a daily basis. The\u00a0<\/span>regime<\/span>, meanwhile, is sending people back to work while falsely claiming to those certain areas of the country have reduced the spread of illness to negligible levels.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This disregard for its own people comes as little surprise to people who understand the nature and history of the Iranian regime. And those same people understand that its disregard for the general population pales in comparison to its disregard for the prison population. Long before Rouhani\u2019s acknowledgment of a recent outbreak, this led to questions about what had been going on behind the walls of facilities like Evin Prison. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Those places are no strangers to mass death or to the aggressive enforcement of secrecy. That, of course, is a dangerous combination. Although the Iran<\/span>ian regime<\/span>\u00a0is well-recognized for having the highest per-capita rate of execution in the world, the actual number of annual hangings is never precisely known, because many of them go unrecorded in official documents. They are only made known to the world through<\/span>\u00a0the tireless work of activists, including those still detained alongside death row inmates.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By the regime\u2019s own admission, these political prisoners, or \u201cnational security case,\u201d were not included in the furlough arrangements that were first announced in March. But some prisoner-activists were quick to declare that they had seen no sign of the widespread releases that authorities had announced. In an open letter announcing a hunger strike, inmates at Greater Tehran Penitentiary noted that even though some people had disappeared from their cells, few had been given formal notice of transfer or release.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This in turn has fueled speculation about enforced disappearances, which cannot be easily dispelled in absence of independent confirmation of the judiciary\u2019s mass furloughs. As it stands, reports of those furloughs depend entirely on the testimony of the judiciary head, a known human rights abuser who was among the leading perpetrators of a mass execution of prisoners in 1988<\/a>, which claimed an estimated 30,000 lives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Increasingly, though, those reports are being contradicted by the details that are shared with the public by civil activists, political prisoners, independent journalist, and occasionally,\u00a0<\/span>regime officials. Since furloughs were announced, several prisons have been\u00a0host\u00a0to rights and breakout attempts driven by concerns over Covid-19. Amnesty International has confirmed that at least 36 inmates were killed in the regime\u2019s reprisals, to say nothing of those who died of illness, abuse, or neglect in the run-up to the unrest.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of these underscores the vital need for international human rights monitors to access the <\/span>Iran<\/span>\u00a0and evaluate the condition of its prisons. Tehran has always refused to comply with such requests, and this is unlikely to change\u00a0in the midst of\u00a0the pandemic. But the global crisis should not distract human rights advocates from the mission of putting pressure on the Iranian regime over these matters. If that regime\u00a0is able to\u00a0get away with lying\u00a0<\/span>on such a grand scale about safeguarding the lives of its prisoners, what other deceptions will it be able to get away with in the future?<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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