Iran: Defiant youth target Lorestan Prisons General Directorate, a center of repression, torture, and murder
On March 27, 2020, Abdolmajid Keshvari, Director General of Lorestan Prisons, said that in order to implement the resolutions of the General Directors of the country's prisons' meeting, units of the Special State Security Force were deployed in the Province's prisons. According to Mahmoud Samini, the deputy governor for political and security affairs, 23 prisoners escaped from the Parsilon prison in Khorramabad on March 19, 2020. One of those prisoners was shot dead, and another was wounded. The director-general of Lorestan prisons had made prayer obligatory in prisons as recently as September 2, 2020.
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October 3, 2020
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