“It all started when an important official in Evin prison confessed to me that he wanted to hang himself in front of the prison’s entrance,” said the director. “He suffered from a deep ...

The Free Narges Mohammadi campaign, citing a statement from her family abroad, said she sent a message from Evin Prison on Monday and "informed her family that she started a hunger strike several ...

On March 2, Armenian Christian Sevada Aghasar was released from Tehran's Evin Prison on bail. Aghasar was arrested in Karaj on Aug. 21, 2013 after plain-clothes security authorities raided his office ...

A newly released affidavit details the alleged sexual assault that ended with 21-year-old Evin Bishop's arrest. A woman told police she was walking to her car when she came across Bishop and ...

“It’s just a trap, it is not worth taking the risk.” Mr Ashoori, who was kept in solitary confinement in Evin Prison and interrogated during the first four months, said it was good the couple have ...

A group of civil rights activists and supporters of the “No to Execution Tuesdays” campaign gathered outside Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran, on Tuesday night, chanting slogans against capital ...

Elon Musk has no power to put anyone in jail, but his fantasy about a “long prison sentence” for “60 Minutes” reporters is dangerous nonetheless. If you want to know why, just ask Elon Musk.

Successive governments trying to look "tough on crime" have driven the rising prison population which forced the early release of thousands of inmates last year, a review suggests. The report by ...

Why have US officials not yet said no? Al Jazeera’s John Holman has been inside the notorious prison.

The Trump administration’s goals, from mass deportation to harsher punishments for some crimes, are reliant on the federal government having access to more prison and jail cells. Without that carceral ...

Naghavi, who is in Evin Prison, has been denied access to medical care. An informed source told Human Rights Watch that “Mr. Naghavi suffers from multiple health issues, and even the prison ...

The cartoonist was remanded to Tehran's Evin prison for the caricature of a crocodile crushing a troublesome writer - a depiction which protestors insisted was a direct insult of conservative ...