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Iran’s judiciary announced on Sunday that Israel’s June 23 bombing of the Evin Prison in Tehran killed 71 people, a number that’s been corroborated by a US-based rights group that’s critical of the Iranian government.
“During the attack on the Evin Prison, 71 people — including prison administrative staff, soldiers, convicted inmates, families of the prisoners who had come for visitation or legal- follow-up, and people living nearby — were martyred,” said Asghar Jahangir, a spokesman for the judiciary, who said the attack was a “full-fledged crime.”
Jahangir said that the bombing occurred during visitation hours when inmates were meeting with their families and social workers. According to the US-based Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI), at least 35 of those killed were staff members, two were inmates, one was a woman visiting a judge about her imprisoned husband, and another person was killed while walking near the prison. The rest have yet to be identified by the group…
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