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In Iran, family members wait and worry outside Evin Prison | |
2009-06-26 | |
Reporting from Tehran -- The mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters wait. They sip tea, amble around, look at their watches and stare at the posted lists of names, about 700 or 800 of them. They arrived early outside Evin Prison, the notorious complex of buildings in northern Tehran where most of the Iranians arrested in the recent unrest have been locked up.
But no one is there to tell them where to go or what to do. One man approaches the gate of a shuttered general courthouse near the prison entrance. A kindly soldier approaches. "My dear father," he says. "You must go to the Revolutionary Court on Moallem Street. They will say where and when your child will be released." | |
Posted by:Steve White |