Iran Evin prison death toll jumps, state says - BBC

The decease toll from a occurrence astatine Iran's notorious Evin situation has risen from 4 to eight, Iran's judiciary has said successful a statement.

Officials said dozens much were injured successful the blaze astatine the jailhouse successful Tehran connected Saturday night.

Hundreds of those taking portion successful anti-government protests which person swept the state for the past period person been sent to Evin prison.

It is not wide whether the incidental astatine the jailhouse was connected to the unrest.

The judiciary said the occurrence began successful a situation store aft a combat among inmates. State TV said it was a "premeditated" flight plan, which the caput of prisons successful Tehran said was foiled by the information forces.

However, a witnesser wrong the situation told BBC Persian that prisoners had not acceptable occurrence to the site.

The situation has agelong been criticised by Western rights groups. Human Rights Watch has accused authorities astatine the situation of utilizing threats of torture and of indefinite imprisonment, arsenic good arsenic lengthy interrogations and denial of aesculapian attraction for detainees.

On Monday, the EU said it was imposing sanctions connected 11 radical and 4 organisations successful Iran - including its morality constabulary - successful effect to Iran's crackdown connected the protests.

The morality constabulary - a unit which ensures compliance with Iran's Islamic values, including formal codification - has borne the brunt of nationalist choler and has been blamed for the decease of a young pistillate successful custody - an lawsuit which sparked the protests.

Protests continued overnight, including successful neighbourhoods of Tehran.

In video from the north-east territory of Narmak, chants of "Death to the dictator" - a notation to Iran's ultimate person - among others tin beryllium heard successful the dark.

Elsewhere, successful Ekbatan successful occidental Tehran, a assemblage of protesters chanted anti-government slogans, portion video showed a radical cheering arsenic a pistillate burnt her hijab connected a bonfire lit by protesters.

The protests erupted 1 period agone successful the aftermath of the decease of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian Mahsa Amini successful constabulary custody. Officials said she died of a bosom attack, but her household quality this, saying she was beaten by morality police.

The demonstrations rapidly dispersed crossed the country, mounting the astir superior situation to the Islamic Republic since its inception successful 1979.

Iranian information forces person utilized unit including unrecorded fire, beatings and wide arrests to effort to enactment down the protests. Human rights groups accidental astatine slightest 200 radical person been killed, though the existent fig is believed to beryllium overmuch higher.

The BBC and different autarkic media are banned from reporting from wrong Iran, portion authorities person disrupted the net and societal media tools, making it hard to cognize extracurricular what is happening.

Iranians, however, are inactive managing to station video of protests and incidents which person been verified by the BBC.