Oct. 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The High Representative of the European Union for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, has asked the Iranian authorities this Sunday to disclose with “maximum transparency” their information on the fire that occurred last night in the Evin prison, in the the country’s capital, Tehran, where numerous political prisoners are imprisoned.
The authorities, in their latest balance, have confirmed at least four deaths and 61 injuries, most of them already discharged, in a fire that they have blamed on a riot started by common prisoners. The deceased have been identified as prisoners convicted of robbery.
“We expect maximum transparency on the situation,” Borrell requested on his Twitter account after expressing his most “serious concern” to the Iranian Foreign Minister, Hosein Amirabdolahian.
According to the governor of Tehran province, Mohsen Mansuri, quoted by the semi-official Iranian news agency Tasnim, “firefighters and security forces have the Evin prison fire under control and the situation is calm.”
Mansuri has specified that the fire started in wings 7 and 8 on Saturday afternoon and has pointed out that the violence was concentrated in a detention area for “thugs and gangsters.”
