Judiciary: Israeli strike on Evin prison claimed 71 lives, including civilians
Iran’s Judiciary’s spokesman Asghar Jahangir said on Sunday that last week’s Israeli strike on Tehran's Evin prison during the 12-day aggression on Iran killed at least 71 people.
“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 neighbors who lived in the prison’s vicinity,” Jahangir said in remarks carried on the Judiciary's news outlet Mizan.
Jahangir said the regime committed a “full-scale crime” on June 23, inflicting extensive financial and physical damage on the people who lived near the jail’s visitation and interrogation halls.
Jahangir also noted that a number of people were injured in the Israeli strike, some of whom were treated on site and others were taken to hospital.
The strike on June 23 destroyed part of the administrative building at Evin.
Images shared by the Judiciary showed destroyed walls, collapsed ceilings, scattered debris, and broken surfaces across waiting areas at the facility.
The judiciary said that Evin's medical center and visiting rooms had been targeted.
On Tuesday, a day after the strike, the Judiciary said that the Iranian prison authority had transferred inmates out of Evin prison.
From the first day of its unprovoked aggression against Iran, the Israeli regime repeatedly targeted civilian infrastructures.
The regime’s attacks killed more than 600 people, including women and children, nuclear scientist and top military commanders.