A Ten-fold Increase in the Number of Prisoners Since 1979

The legacy of Islamic Republic of Iran

Roozonline reports:The head of the prison organization said that since 1979, the number of prisoners had increased by ten times while the country's population had merely doubled. In 1978, some 411 political prisoners had been released and the non-political prisoners that had been released on bail returned to prison in the early days of the revolution. At that time the founder of the Islamic Republic had promised that prisons would be turned into schools, while revolutionary's announcements said that Iran had some 100,000 political prisoners.