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Abysmal Sanitary Conditions and Rampant Addiction in Qezel Hessar Prison

September 28, 2020
Qezel Hesar Prison
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Abysmal sanitary conditions and rampant addiction in Qezel Hessar Prison in Karaj have surpassed the boundaries of disaster. Prisoners are detained under critically inhuman conditions in this prison.

Iran Human Rights Monitor has received an exclusive report about the horrible sanitary conditions and rampant addiction in Qezel Hessar Prison.

The report by one of the prisoners in this jail says:

Social distancing and sanitary conditions

The situation is terrible. Social distancing and the hygiene protocols are not observed in this prison.

The best unit in Qezel Hessar Prison is Unit 2 which has small rooms with 9 beds in them. 12 or 13 prisoners stay in a room 3 by 5 meters.

The larger rooms are 25 square meters. There are 18 beds and between 35 and 45 inmates in each of these rooms.

The bathroom is opened at 4 a.m. and closed at 6 a.m. The water, however, is warm for only 10 to 20 minutes.

Medical care

There is only one type of medicine (in the clinic) which is prescribed for all patients here, regardless of their illness. And they receive this medication only if they are an emergency case.

The pill is Acetaminophen and the syrup is Theophylline.

Prison guards funnel in drugs

Prison authorities have made inmates addicted to the consumption of Methadone.

Prison guards bring in all kinds of narcotic drugs. They work together as a mafia and sell the drugs at exorbitant price to young inmates. Every gram of opium is sold for 300,000 Tomans, every gram of heroine for 600,000 Tomans, and every gram of crack for 500 to 600 thousand Tomans.

Last week, they discovered some 3 kilograms of narcotic drugs worth 2 billion Tomans from one of the small rooms.  

Tremendous pressure on prisoners

They hold the young detainees for a long time without any reasons until they gradually become addicted. 

One of the prisoners has spent all his life to avert his death sentence. But he faced a new charge in 2017. The new case has been filed against him for his similarity of name and based on confessions extracted from him (under torture). His status, however, remains undetermined to date.

There is tremendous pressure on prisoners in Qezel Hessar.

Every once in a while one of the inmates commits suicide. Last week, an inmate by the name of Erfan took his own life.

No one knows what the young people and all detainees go through in these hellish detention centers.

Iran Human Rights Monitor urges the UN, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the Special Rapporteur on Iran to take urgent action to save the lives of Iranian prisoners. It is an urgent need to form a delegation to visit the prisons and the prisoners in Iran.

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