PARIS: A fire and clashes erupted at Tehran's notorious Evin prison on Saturday night (Sunday in Manila) as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody entered a fifth week.

The facility in northern Tehran is infamous for the ill-treatment of political prisoners and also holds foreign detainees. Hundreds of those detained during the demonstrations over Amini's death have reportedly been sent there.

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