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The Latest Breaking News from Evin

The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club by Sepideh Gholian review – like no recipe book you’ve ever read

A political prisoner lifts the lid on the hardships and fantasies of inmates in Iran’s most notorious jail

The Guardian - UK

Iran knows my son is innocent, says mother of French man held in Evin jail

Olivier Grondeau was arrested in 2022 and has accused Iran of using him for ‘political blackmail’ against France

The Guardian - UK

Italy presses Iran for immediate release of journalist held in Tehran

Foreign ministry summons ambassador as Cecilia Sala reportedly tells family she sleeps on floor of prison cell

The Guardian - UK

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi Released For Treatment

Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi released from Evin prison for medical treatment, highlighting challenges faced by human rights defenders in Iran.

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Swedish Diplomat Recalls Darkest Moments In Iran Prison

After almost 800 days in Iran's notorious Evin prison, the now-free Swedish diplomat Johan Floderus recalled the darkest moments throughout his imprisonment and how he survived them.

International Business Times

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: What Iran jail hell taught me about freedom of speech

EXCLUSIVE: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe shared a bunk with one of Evin prison’s pillars of resilience. She tells the Standard of what she learned about Iran’s state-sponsored cancel culture and repression

Evening Standard

Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights

Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state. She was named by the…

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First Thing: Freed American condemns Iran for holding foreigners hostage

Siamak Namazi was held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly eight years before the $6bn prisoner swap on Monday. Plus, New York City’s $52bn plan to save itself from the sea

The Guardian - UK

Freed American decries Iran’s ‘vile path to profit’ of holding foreigners hostage

Siamak Namazi was held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for nearly eight years before the $6bn prisoner swap on Monday

The Guardian - US

'I was tortured in notorious Iran jail as terminally ill son lay dying outside its walls'

On December 28, 2021 single parent Mehdi (Yasser) Akbari was left in despair after he learned that his only child, Amir-Ali, had passed away at a care facility while he was still trapped inside the notorious Evin prison on the outskirts of Tehran

Daily Mirror

First Thing: Bill to raise debt ceiling passes days before default

The House passed a deal brokered by Joe Biden and Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy with a final vote of 314 to 117

The Guardian - UK

‘Loss for Iran’s wildlife’: woman jailed in Tehran calls for environmentalists’ release

Aras Amiri, a former British Council employee, was held in Evin prison with seven members of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation

The Guardian - UK

Iranian prison guards break knees of woman, 70, locked up in notorious Evin jail

Mahvash Sabet Shahriari was brutally battered during interrogation after being sentenced to 10 years in Tehran's notorious Evin jail - which also housed freed Brit Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - for anti-government protests

Daily Mirror

Freed French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah still unable to leave Iran

Six French nationals remain imprisoned in Iran. A seventh, the Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah, is no longer behind bars, having been released from Tehran's Evin prison in February. But the Iranian authorities have refused to return her identity papers, making it impossible for her to travel.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Rearrests Female Activist Hours After her Release

Iranian security forces rearrested prominent activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian hours after she walked free from jail chanting slogans against supreme leader Ali Khamenei, activists said Thursday. Gholian, 28, was freed Wednesday from Tehran's Evin prison after spending over four years behind bars following a conviction related to her reporting…

The Independent UK

American detained in Iran launches hunger strike to mark seven years in captivity

‘I remain caged in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, holding that long overdue IOU along with the unenviable title of the longest held Iranian-American hostage in history’

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Detains Celebrity Chef Who Posted 'Cutlets' Video on Suleimani Anniversary

Iran has detained a prominent chef and Instagram influencer, known for his videos promoting Persian cooking, in its crackdown on nationwide protests, human rights groups and supporters said on Thursday. Navab Ebrahimi was arrested in Tehran on Wednesday and taken to the city's Evin prison, the Human Rights Activists News…

The Guardian - UK

‘I have to control the flashbacks’: Anoosheh Ashoori on life after being freed from an Iranian jail

The British Iranian was released from prison after five years in March. The 68-year-old is cherishing time with family and has run the London marathon - but his ordeal still haunts him

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 28 Years in Prison

The Iranian authorities sentenced Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to 28 years in prison, according to a spokesman for his family. Vandecasteele, 41, was arrested in Iran at the end of February and was once held in Evin prison over "fabricated series of crimes" on suspicion of espionage. Belgium and…

Daily Mirror

Inside notorious and deadly Iran prison as prisoner shares 12-hour interrogations

Anoosheh Ashoori was sentenced to spent time at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, in August 2017 where he spent nearly five years - he returned to the UK in March of this year

Asharq Al-Awsat

Iran's Prisons 'Torturing Families': Husband of Jailed Activist

Prize-winning Iranian human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi, currently jailed in Tehran's Evin prison as protests grip the country, has not seen her 16-year-old twins for seven years. She has not met her husband Taghi Rahmani, himself a veteran of Iranian jails but now living in exile in Paris, for the…

Reuters

Exclusive-Deadly Iran jail fire erupted as police clashed with inmates, sources say

Two days before a fire ripped through a section of Iran's Evin prison and killed at least eight people, a riot police unit arrived at the compound and began to patrol the corridors, shouting "God is Greatest" and banging batons on cell doors, six sources told Reuters.

The Independent UK

Elnaz Rekabi: Iranian climber posts Instagram ‘apology’ for competing without hijab

The athlete said not wearing a headscarf was ‘unintentional’

Reuters

Americans detained in Iran accounted for after fire at Evin prison

U.S. citizens detained in Iran are accounted for and safe after the fire at Evin prison, U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel told reporters on Monday.

Reuters

Factbox-Who are the foreign nationals held in Iran's Evin prison?

A fire at Iran's Evin prison on Oct. 15 that killed eight people has ramped up pressure on clerical rulers who are already struggling to contain nationwide protests ignited by the death of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in police custody.

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