Oral history of Ghasr Prison to be published

Mohammad Javad Moradinia, write and history researcher, said he is currently working on the Oral History of the Ghasr Prison.

IBNA: According to the Islamic Revolution information headquarters, the book is being written based on the interviews with 30 political detainees of the prison which reflects their status under their turnkeys since 1950.

Manager of the Iranology and Islamology Department of the National Library and Archives Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran said that he chose prisoners who had served many years of their lives in the prison as political detainees under the first and second Pahlavi Shahs.

Moradinia went on to say that various section of the prison as well as the individual and collective programs of the prison including person meetings, importance events, free times, hygiene and medication are elaborated on in the book.

The interviewees varied from religious to non-religious activists who happened to be kept in the same prison under the Pahlavi dynasty for their political activities. Figures like Ahmad Ali Borhani, Mohammad Kazem Mousavi Bojnourdi, Ali Aghamohammadi, Mehdi Abdolkhodaei, Mir Mohammad Sadeghi, Mohammad Rajabi, Mohammad Bastehnegar, Morteza Nabavi, Moastafa Rahnama, Moradali Ahmadi, Kazem Akrami, Mehdi Ghani, Marziyeh Hadidchi, Ahmad Tavakoli, Ezat Shahi, Vajiheh Mousavi and Hadi Khamenei are some of the interviewees of the oral history project, added the book’s author.

Prior to the establishment of the Evin Prison, Ghasr was the biggest prison in Iran, and was founded in 1929 by Reza Shah. During the Islamic Revolution the prison was almost 50 years old and kept most of the political prisoners of that time.