Since its closure in 2008, Qasr Prison has been open to the public as a museum.
One of Iran’s oldest political prisons dating back to the Qajar dynasty (1785-1925), the shah’s former officials were detained and executed there following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Today, as these haunting images show, visitors can see the rooms where these political detainees spent their last days, some of them displaying photographs of and writing from former prisoners.
Fars newsagency
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