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Heshmatiyeh Prison

تهران, Italy

Heshmatiyeh Prison (Persian: زندان حشمتیه, romanized: Zendān-e Heshmatiyeh) is a prison in Iran, located on a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) base, in the North-East of Tehran. It is noted for its political prisoners' wing. In 2011 it was suggested that Iranian opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi, Me

hdi Karroubi and their wives Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karroubi were being detained in the prison after abduction by security forces.

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