Pictures of the Qasr Prison

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It had 192 rooms for 700 prisoners, of which about 100 cells were solitary. Here Ahmad Ahmadi, known to prisoners simply as “Dr Ahmadi” administered lethal air injections to several of Reza Shah’s many opponents, such as the poet Mohammad Farrokhi Yazdi.

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