Sputnik - The Iranian authorities have freed a 'significant number' of people who were detained during massive protests in the country, head of Iran's Prisons Organization Asghar Jahangir said on Monday. "A significant number of detainees have now been released across the country", Jahangir said, as quoted by Iran's Tasnim news agency. He further ...

Tasnim - Head of Irans State Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization said 22,700 Iranian prisoners have been released under recent clemency granted by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolutions victory. In comments on Tuesday, Ali Asghar Jahangir said 22,700 inmates have ...

Mizan | Ali Shirband: Iranian Vice-President for Parliamentary Affairs Asghar Jahangir has met with Afghan Minister of Justice Abdul Basir Anwar in Tehran on October 28, 2018.  

IRNA- The head of the Prisons Organization of Iran, said that 92% of foreign prisoners in Iran are Afghan nationals. Asghar Jahangir said in a meeting with Afghan Justice Minister Abdul Basir Anwar on Sunday that 2.5 percent of the prisoners in the country are foreign nationals and 92 percent of them are Afghans. He continued, 'Only 3% of prisoners ...