{"id":245650,"date":"2021-08-24T13:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T18:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=245650"},"modified":"2023-01-31T19:30:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:30:55","slug":"footage-from-evin-prison-confirms-irans-worsening-crackdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/footage-from-evin-prison-confirms-irans-worsening-crackdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage from Evin Prison Confirms Iran\u2019s Worsening Crackdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Associated Press reported<\/a> on Monday that it had received surveillance footage of Evin Prison from an anonymous hacking collective, along with a message explaining the intended purpose of the leak. Among the footage were images that showed guards in Evin\u2019s control room reacting to the cyberattack through which the hackers obtained access to the facility\u2019s cameras and computer data. According to the communications received by the AP, the hackers copied data that amounts to hundreds of gigabytes and sat on much of it for months before releasing large quantities to the media in the wake of Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s swearing-in as the regime\u2019s new president earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The Evin footage was described as part of an effort to bring attention to grim prison conditions in Iran, especially for political prisoners. Raisi\u2019s inauguration is in line with that goal because the human rights conditions would grow even worse under his administration. Raisi has a history of abuses including high-level participation in the massacre<\/a> of 30,000 political prisoners during the summer of 1988.<\/p>\n

The footage covers a period when Raisi was still in charge of the judiciary, before being confirmed as the regime\u2019s president. He was designated as the regime\u2019s top law enforcement official in 2018 by the mullahs\u2019 Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, then took office in March 2019. In November of that year, he was given a unique opportunity to compound his legacy of human rights abuses by overseeing key aspects of the crackdown on a nationwide uprising that broke out across nearly 200 cities and towns.<\/p>\n

The crackdown entailed a new surge of political imprisonment, with at least 12,000<\/a> people being detained in the first weeks following the outbreak of unrest. A later report from Amnesty International made it clear that many of those arrestees were subjected to systematic torture over a period of months, as Raisi\u2019s judiciary attempted to secure forced confessions and set the stage for politically motivated prosecutions, possibly on charges that carry the death penalty.<\/p>\n

In keeping with his reputation as \u201chenchman of 1988,\u201d Raisi has long been a leading proponent of capital punishment, and as such, he oversaw an increased implementation of death sentences during the period in which he was judiciary chief, compared to an equivalent period in previous years. In 2019, at least 281 people were hanged, and in 2020 the number was at least 251. These statistics helped to maintain Iran, under the mullahs\u2019 regime as the nation with the highest rate of executions per capita, and the current year is on track to further widen the gap between Iran and the next most prolific user of the death penalty.<\/p>\n

During the first eight months of 2021, at least 220 prisoners have been executed, with more than 60 of these killings have taken place since Raisi\u2019s \u201celection.\u201d The acceleration shows that Raisi\u2019s influence over the repressive climate of the regime would only increase after his transition from the leadership of the judiciary to the leadership of the executive branch. Raisi\u2019s replacement as judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei<\/a>, has his own notorious legacy of human rights abuses, including involvement in the assassination of dissidents and intellectuals in the 1990s.<\/p>\n

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