{"id":333601,"date":"2025-06-30T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=333601"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:27:44","slug":"who-is-hedayatollah-farzadi-the-iranian-regimes-notorious-prison-warden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/anews\/who-is-who\/who-is-hedayatollah-farzadi-the-iranian-regimes-notorious-prison-warden\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Hedayatollah Farzadi, the Iranian Regime\u2019s Notorious Prison Warden?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hedayatollah Farzadi (right) stands during his official introduction as the new director of Evin Detention Center on Monday, September 19, 2022<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hedayatollah Farzadi, born July 25, 1971 in Basht, Iran, has been a fixture of the Iranian regime<\/a>\u2019s brutal prison system for over two decades. He began his career as director of a forced labor camp in the early 2000s and later rose through the ranks, overseeing some of the most infamous detention centers in the country. Between 2007 and 2017, he served as director of Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah, a facility so notorious for abuse that inmates dubbed it \u201cthe last station on Earth.\u201d Kurdish political prisoner Rabin Rahmani, who spent two years under Farzadi\u2019s rule there, described public amputations and psychological torture as routine. One of Farzadi\u2019s tactics was placing political prisoners among drug users and violent offenders to break their spirit and silence dissent.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

From 2017 to 2019, Farzadi was appointed director of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafouyeh), where his pattern of abuse continued. During his tenure:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n