NCRI – The state-run website Aftab Yazd said that more that 450 infants live with their mothers in the mullahs' regime prisons.
"According to Prison Organization regulations, children up to three can stay with their mothers in prisons. However, there are many cases that toddlers stay with their mothers way over that age. The prolonged incarceration causes such children all sorts of problem," the website said.
Aftab Yazd added that "2,300 other children under 15 were sent to orphanages because their mothers were in prison."
The Iranian prisons are without nurseries to look after the infants. And the children serve time alongside of their mothers, the website said.
Some of them get used to the prison conditions to the point they would go back to prison as criminals later in their adulthood, Aftab Yazd said.
