Prison 59 (in Persian: بازداشتگاه ۵۹) is an unofficial detention centre on Vali-e Asr Avenue in
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...
,
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...
, under the administration of the
Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch o ...
. Like other covert detention centres such as
Towhid Prison and
Amaken, prisoners here are held without charge and subjected to solitary confinement.
See also
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Evin Prison
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Prison 209
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Heshmatiyeh Prison Heshmatiyeh Prison ( fa, زندان حشمتیه ''Zendān Heshmatiyeh'') is a prison in Iran, located on a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) base, in the North-East of Tehran. It is noted for its political prisoners' wing.
In 2011 it was suggested tha ...
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Gohardasht Prison
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Towhid Prison
External links
Human Rights Watch report on illegal detention centers in IranECOI human rights report about prison conditions in Iran
Buildings and structures in Tehran
Prisons in Iran
Human rights abuses in Iran
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