Qarchak Prison
Qarchak Prison is a prison for women located in Qarchak, in the Varamin neighborhood of Tehran, Iran. It is also called Rey Women Prison, “Gharchak Women’s Prison“, Rey Penitentiary or Varamin prison.Prisoners
The prison's seven sections contain more than 1400 prisoners, which is twice the nominal capacity.
As of July 2020, 17 female political prisoners are being detained in Qarchak prison.
On 23 May 2020, Soheila Hejab, a 30-year-old law graduate sentenced to 18 years in prison for forming a group for women's rights and who had been summoned for that day to the Court of Appeals, was brutally arrested on leaving the hearing by IRGC agents, and taken to Qarchak.
In June 2020, it was reported that political prisoners in Qarchak had been infected with covid-19.
On 26 July 2020, the Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has been moved from Evin to Qarchak.Reactions
Qarchak prison is listed under Section 106 of the US's Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act on the basis of extrajudicial killings, torture and other violations of human rights.
