Caught between bombs and prison bars

Passers-by looking at the damage to the visitor centre and prosecutor’s office near the entrance to Evin Prison. — Arash Khamooshi/The New York Times

CEILINGS, walls and wooden cabinets lay in heaps of jagged debris in Evin prison’s visitor centre. Scorched papers and brightly coloured case files were scattered amid broken bricks and tangled wires in the administration block.

In the infirmary, shattered glass covered beds and medical equipment.