Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Feb. 02 – Agents of
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the country’s secret
police, have been conducting night raids into the homes of striking bus drivers
and workers in Tehran in recent days, arresting hundreds of union activists
and, in some cases, detaining family members to blackmail strikers.
Iran Focus has learnt from sources in
“More than a thousand people arrested over the past week on political charges
have been brought to Evin”, a dissident worker who
requested anonymity said in a telephone interview.
"Most are being held in Evin's ward 209, which
is run by the secret police”, he added.
On Saturday, clashes erupted between
All those taken to Evin Prison this week are being
questioned several times in a rotating pattern, the source said.
Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a
modern security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic
Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of numerous political executions.