Hope and despair in Qazal Hasar Prison in Karaj; in conversation with an executed prisoner/ Simin Rouzgar.

Hope and despair, together, are intertwined in Karaj’s Qezel Hessar prison – one of the largest prisons in the Middle East – despite thousands of prisoners under death sentences. It has been a few months since prisoners have heard whispers that the current laws regarding issuing death sentences for drug-related crimes may change; on one […]...

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