Prisoners at Tehran’s Evin prison ‘transferred’ after Israeli strike on gate

Iran’s prison authority has “transferred” prisoners out of the notorious Evin prison after it was hit by Israeli strikes, the Iranian judiciary says.

The prison authority “transferred the inmates who were serving their sentences in this prison to other facilities within Tehran province… to safeguard the rights of the prisoners and to provide space for emergency response teams,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website says

Local media reports the process had been completed, but it is not clear how many prisoners were transferred.

Defense Minister Israel Katz said yesterday that an Israeli airstrike hit the gate of Tehran’s Evin Prison, a large and heavily fortified complex where Iran has incarcerated political prisoners, journalists, academics, human rights activists, foreign nationals and others.

Iranian state television shared what appeared to be black-and-white-surveillance footage of the strike.

The prison is infamous among activists for torture and rights abuses.

Iran’s judiciary said Israeli strikes left sections of the facility damaged.

There were no immediate reports of prisoners hurt in the strike, which was apparently intended to allow the detainees to escape the facility.

There was no confirmation from the IDF of the strike on the facility.

Evin Prison’s gate has been blown open—by the IDF.

The regime’s most feared symbol of repression—hit.
For 45 years, political prisoners and Iran’s greatest minds have been tortured, silenced, and murdered there.

Today, that gate fell.
The Islamic Republic is cracking.
Let it… pic.twitter.com/7ZKbug0P3N

— Matthew Nouriel (@MatthewNouriel) June 23, 2025