Coronavirus: 35 prisoners Killed in Al Ahwaz
In the Al-Ahwaz (or Khuzestan) province of south-western Iran, recent prison riots at the Sepidar and Sheiban prisons in the city of Ahvaz resulted in the deaths of an estimated 35 Ahwazi Arab inmates. Protests in the prison began reportedly because the prison authorities "reneged on earlier promises to release prisoners who the authorities do not have specific security concerns...