Iran Removes Prisons Chief Amid Allegations Inmates Were Beaten
Iran replaced the head of its prison service a day after lawmakers called on the government to investigate allegations that guards had beaten inmates at Tehran’s Evin jail. Gholamhossein Esmaili will quit the job to become head of the judiciary in Tehran province, with his post taken by Asghar Jahangir, according to the semi-official Fars News agency. A group of nine lawmakers yesterday urged Iran’s justice minister to look into claims by the families of prisoners, who staged a weekend protest outside Evin prison, that inmates had been ...
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