{"id":6218,"date":"2021-11-23T22:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/test\/2021\/11\/23\/evinprisonleakedvideos\/"},"modified":"2022-09-17T02:07:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T21:37:28","slug":"evinprisonleakedvideos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/evinprisonleakedvideos\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Videos, Iran Opens Cases Against Prison Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country\u2019s notorious Evin prison, the judiciary reported on Tuesday, after footage showing the widespread abuse of detainees at the facility leaked out last week.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<strong>VOA<\/strong> _ The judiciary\u2019s three-day investigation into mistreatment and grim conditions at Tehran\u2019s Evin prison had landed \u201csome\u201d prison guards in detention, said judiciary spokesman Zabihollah Khodaeian. Authorities also summoned two guards and punished others, Khodaeian said, without elaborating on the penalties or identifying the suspects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The revelation comes days after The Associated Press published parts of the videos and a report about the abuse at the facility in northern Tehran, long known for holding political prisoners and those with ties to the West whom Iran uses as bargaining chips in international negotiations. An online account, purportedly by a self-described hacker group, shared footage of the incident, as well as parts of other surveillance videos it seized.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cThe scenes shown in the published films were against the law and it is not justifiable under any circumstances,\u201d said Khodaeian, noting that the leaked clips had been selected and edited from different scenes over the course of years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In one part of the footage, a man smashes a bathroom mirror to try to cut open his arm. Prisoners \u2014 and even guards \u2014 beat each other in scenes captured by surveillance cameras. Inmates sleeping in single rooms with bunk beds stacked three high against the walls, wrapping themselves in blankets to stay warm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iran\u2019s judiciary ordered an investigation into the abuse last week after the head of the country\u2019s prison system acknowledged the videos were real, expressing contrition and saying he took responsibility for the \u201cunacceptable behaviors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since its construction in 1971 under Iran\u2019s shah, the prison has seen a series of abuses that continued into the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country\u2019s notorious Evin prison, the judiciary reported on Tuesday, after footage showing the widespread abuse of detainees at the facility leaked out last week.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iran-fa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6302,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/6302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panahandenews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}