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Fashafuyeh Prison

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The Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (Persian: زندان مرکزی تهران بزرگ) is a prison approximately 32 km (20 mi) south of Tehran. Sometimes called Tehran Central Prison, it is a large prison, also known as "فشافویه ", "Fashafuyeh" or "Hasanabad-e Qom Prison". It was built in 2012 in the Hasanabad r

egion south of Tehran, in the deserts of the Tehran to Qom highway.Several thousand prisoners have been or are being transferred to the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary from Evin, Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) and Ghezel Hessar prisons. With an official capacity of 15,000 inmates, the prison is the largest detention facility in the country.

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