Word: evin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Iranian historical heroes. Though even foreign women must don head scarves and can expect anxious nudges from security guards if a single wisp of hair falls into view, some Iranian women have begun with impunity to try on flesh-colored stockings or a touch of mascara. Even notorious Evin Prison, where up to 70 inmates have reportedly been kept in a single one-man cell and 200 killed in an evening, has been renamed a training school and made to seem more glossy than grisly. In honor of the anniversary celebrations, the government issued a four-color brochure showing...
After that they took me to Tehran's Evin Prison, one of the Shah's most notorious jails. The cells were so packed with political prisoners that some were held in the halls and bathrooms. I was placed in a tub of ice water. I don't know how long I was kept there, but when they dragged me out I was numb and almost senseless. My skin was frozen and felt like wood. "Let's warm him up," said an Islamic Guard. The two began whipping me with cables. At first I couldn...
Sometime on the night of Sept. 4, a contingent of heavily armed Islamic guards arrived at Evin Prison in northwest Tehran in a caravan of largely empty Jeeps and minibuses. As sleepy-and astonished-prison guards watched, the intruders rounded up some 150 prisoners, many of whom had recently been incarcerated for political crimes by the fundamentalist courts of the beleaguered Khomeini regime. Corralled into groups of eight to ten, the prisoners were led outside to the waiting vehicles. When some guards objected to the mysterious procedure, they were crisply told to mind their own business...
TIME has learned through sources within the Khomeini regime that the prisoners, including a number of teenagers, were taken from Evin to unknown locations and murdered. Relatives of other executed dissidents stumbled upon "mounds of untended bodies" at Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery, south of Tehran, and were able to identify some as the missing prisoners. SAVAK agents under the Shah once used the same cemetery as a dumping ground for their murdered victims, burying the bodies in unmarked graves. For the first time since Iran's clerical government took over in February 1979, the mass execution was not announced...
Islamic guards led the dozen girls to the courtyard of Evin Prison in Tehran. The oldest was clad in a flowing black chador, the traditional Muslim veil. The others wore dark head scarves. As the guards began to blindfold them, the girls started chanting, "Death to fascism! Death to Khomeini...