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Neighbourhood in the north of Tehran, Iran This article is about the district in Tehran. For other uses, see Evin (disambiguation).
Evin House of Detention

Evin is a neighbourhood in the north of Tehran.

The district consists of an old section filled with orchards and gardens of old houses and a new section with high rises and skyscrapers.

It is adjacent to Shahid Beheshti University campus. It is notorious for the nearby Evin Prison, a detention center famous for atrocities committed against political prisoners, both in the pre-1979 period and in the post-revolutionary period.

It is minutes away from the Darakeh hiking trail. Hiking is a national pastime in Iran, and this trail thus brings many tourists to the area.

References

  1. "Tehran Photos". Arash Dejkam's Iran Pages. Retrieved 6 January 2016.
  2. "Images of Tehran". Iran Online.

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