Videos shared on social media showed large plumes of smoke rising from the facility an the foot of the Alborz Mountains in Tehran.
BEIRUT — A massive fire broke out Saturday night in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, which holds hundreds of dissidents and has detained hundreds more during the past month of street protests.
Iran’s semiofficial Fars and Tasnim news agencies reported that the unrest began when prisoners convicted of financial crimes in two wards, numbers six and seven, got into an altercation, leading other prisoners to take advantage of the disarray and set fire to a workshop and a warehouse full of clothes.Fars reported that a number of prisoners had prepared weapons to take on guards, indicating that the fire was planned.
Families of inmates outside the prison were teargassed earlier in the day, and roads heading there were blocked by nightfall,
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