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In this photograph taken Tuesday, June 24, 2025, rescuers hunt done the rubble of a damaged conception of Evin Prison pursuing an Israeli onslaught the time before, successful Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Mostafa Roudaki/Mizan News Agency)
DUBAI – Iran’s judiciary says astatine slightest 71 radical were killed successful Israel’s onslaught Monday connected Tehran’s Evin prison, a notorious installation wherever galore governmental activists person been held.
Judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir posted connected the office’s authoritative Mizan quality bureau website Sunday that those killed included staff, soldiers, prisoners and members of visiting families.
The June 23 onslaught deed respective situation buildings and prompted concerns from rights groups astir the information of the inmates.
Iran had not antecedently announced immoderate decease figures, though connected Sunday confirmed that apical authoritative Ali Ghanaatkar, whose prosecution of dissidents, including Nobel Peace Prize victor Narges Mohammadi, led to wide disapproval by quality rights groups, had been killed successful the onslaught and would beryllium buried astatine a shrine successful Qom.
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