Journalist Recounts “Inhumane” Living Conditions at Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary
مشاهده عینی نادر فتوره‌چی روزنامه‌نگار از حضور یک روزه در زندان فشافویه: زندانی ضد انسانی و ضد بشری، در ردیف جهنم
AUGUST 25, 2018
An Iranian journalist who was detained at Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has written about the jail’s “inhumane” conditions, stating in a Facebook post that day to day life there is “beyond the limits of human tolerance.”
“The sign above the entrance to the prison in Fashafouyeh says, ‘Great Tehran Penitentiary,’ but the fact is that psychological and physical pressures on the prisoners are so intense that you essentially don’t have the opportunity to ‘contemplate and repent,’” wrote Nader Fatourehchi on August 21, 2018.
With an official capacity of 15,000 inmates, the GTP, located in Tehran Province’s Fashafouyeh district, 20 miles southeast of Tehran, is the largest detention facility in the country. It was built in 2015 primarily for holding suspects and inmates convicted of drug-related offenses, but the judiciary has also used it to incarcerate dissidents and anti-state protesters.
Since February 2018, more than 200 Sufi Muslims belonging to the Gonabadi Order have been transported to the penitentiary after being arrested at a street protest in Tehran that month. In late August, human rights lawyer Arash Keykhosravi and former MP Ghasem Sholeh Sa’di were also taken there in handcuffs and prisoners’ uniforms that are only used for inmates convicted of violent crimes.
مشاهده عینی نادر فتوره‌چی روزنامه‌نگار از حضور یک روزه در زندان فشافویه: زندانی ضد انسانی و ضد بشری، در ردیف جهنم
AUGUST 25, 2018
An Iranian journalist who was detained at Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has written about the jail’s “inhumane” conditions, stating in a Facebook post that day to day life there is “beyond the limits of human tolerance.”
“The sign above the entrance to the prison in Fashafouyeh says, ‘Great Tehran Penitentiary,’ but the fact is that psychological and physical pressures on the prisoners are so intense that you essentially don’t have the opportunity to ‘contemplate and repent,’” wrote Nader Fatourehchi on August 21, 2018.
With an official capacity of 15,000 inmates, the GTP, located in Tehran Province’s Fashafouyeh district, 20 miles southeast of Tehran, is the largest detention facility in the country. It was built in 2015 primarily for holding suspects and inmates convicted of drug-related offenses, but the judiciary has also used it to incarcerate dissidents and anti-state protesters.
Since February 2018, more than 200 Sufi Muslims belonging to the Gonabadi Order have been transported to the penitentiary after being arrested at a street protest in Tehran that month. In late August, human rights lawyer Arash Keykhosravi and former MP Ghasem Sholeh Sa’di were also taken there in handcuffs and prisoners’ uniforms that are only used for inmates convicted of violent crimes.
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