45 percent of prisoners in Iran have not been convicted – official

NCRI – Some 45 percent of inmates in Iran’s prisons have not been convicted of a crime, an official of the Tehran regime has acknowledged.

“I think 45 percent of those who enter prison have not been convicted,” the former head of prisons in Gilan Province, northern Iran, and the former advisor to the head of the state Prison Organization said. His remarks were published by the state-run news agency Tasnim on Sunday.

Last week an advisor to the regime’s Justice Minister acknowledged the high rate of Iranians put in prison by the regime annually.

“Among the various punishments handed down, one of the main punishments is imprisonment,” Mozafar Alvandi said. “Each year some 600,000 people enter prison.”

Earlier this month the Iranian regime's Deputy Minister of Education admitted that more than 1,000 teachers are currently imprisoned in Iran.