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I'm your host, Faranak Amidi.
Evin Prison in the north of Tehran is a well known, somewhat notorious place in Iran.
Everyone has an image of Evin prison in their heads,
but not many people know what goes on in there and how life actually is for the prisoners.
It's certainly not a place where you would expect much singing.
That is the sound of female prisoners in the women's ward of Edin.
They are singing a protest song calling for freedom and an end to the death penalty.
Thousands of women in Iran have been arrested since the Women Life freedom protests in 2022.
And a large proportion of them are held in.
Even through multiple reliable sources,