Israel’s attack on Evin prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran, killed 71 people last week, Iranian judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir says, reports Al Jazeera.
“In the attack on Evin prison, 71 people were martyred, including administrative staff, youth doing their military service, detainees, family members of detainees who were visiting them and neighbours who lived in the prison’s vicinity,” Jahangir said in remarks published on the judiciary’s news outlet, Mizan.
He said Israeli forces attacked a hall where several family members were visiting prisoners.
UN human rights spokesperson Thameen al-Kheetan said last week that attacking the prison was “a grave breach of international humanitarian law”, without naming Israel.
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