Cybersecurity System Hacked, Hackers Show CCTV Footage From Inside Iran's Prison Political Prisoners

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JAKARTA - The security system of Iran's special prison for political prisoners has been hacked by hackers, allowing it to display footage from inside the detention facility, local media say.

Hackers from a group called 'Adalat Ali' published security camera footage, which they claim shows the inside of Iran's Evin Prison, where Iran imprisons and brutally tortures its political prisoners.

One of the clips released shows the name of the group broadcast in a cyberattack warning on the prison control room screen.

Meanwhile, other video footage shows wardens abusing prisoners, dragging them along the floor.

"Evin Prison is a stain on the black turban and white beard of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a national protest until the release of political prisoners," read the sentence broadcast on the screen in the control room, according to the report.

Evin prison was placed under the United States (US) sanctions in 2018 for 'ordering, controlling, or directing, the execution of serious human rights violations against persons in Iran, whether citizens or residents of Iran, as well as family members in Iran either citizens or residents of Iran, as well as members of the above family.

According to a statement by the United States Department of the Treasury at the time, prisoners at Evin Prison were subjected to brutal tactics such as sexual assault, physical assault, and electric shock.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was identified by Amnesty International as a member of Tehran's "death commission" which sent thousands of deaths to Evin Prison and Gohardasht Prison, in the 1980s.

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