Separately, prison guards have decreased the number of cells for political prisoners, giving one of the cells at Ward 350 of Evin Prison to regular prisoners. As a result, cells are overcrowded, with each cell holding 30 to 36 political prisoners. Currently, in each cells one third of prisoners sleep on the floor, and despite the intense summer heat, the cells lack adequate coolers.
The regime’s prison guards also destroyed a small library at the Ward which former political prisoners and current ones like Ali Saremi had laboriously tried to set up.