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Iran: "it has turned into Hell", the country starves 1,000 imprisoned women under cover of power outage
The incident on August 18 marked the latest decline in conditions at a prison activists have long described as a "cemetery," a place where Iran sends its most marginalized women to vanish from public life.
Source: Iranwire (25/08/2025)