Israel’s attack on Evin’s arrest in the capital of Iran, Tehran, on June 23, killed 71 people, Iranian judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangi said on Sunday.
At the end of an air war with Iran, Israel attacked Tehran’s most famous arrest for political prisoners, in a demonstration that he was expanding his targets beyond military and nuclear facilities, aiming at the symbols of the Iran’s government system.
“In attacking Evin’s arrest, 71 people were martyred, including administrative officials, young people who were doing military service, detainees, relatives of detainees who visited them and neighbors who lived near prison,” said Jahangi in comments on Mizan, the judiciary’s news vehicle.
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Jahangi had said earlier that part of Evin’s prison administrative building had been damaged in the attack and that people had been killed and injured. The judiciary added that the other detainees had been transferred to other arrests in Tehran province.
Evin’s arrest houses several foreigners, including two French citizens detained for three years.
“The attack targeting Evin’s arrest in Tehran put our citizens Cecile Kohler and Jacques Paris in danger. It is unacceptable,” France Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said in social media X after the attack.
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(Dubai newsroom report)
