Qasr Prison

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Qasr prison is a prison in Tehran. It is one of the oldest Iranian political prisons.^[1]

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It was built by the order of Fat′h Ali Shah of the Qajar dynasty in 1790 in the form of a palace. It was the first prison in Iran in which the prisoners got their legal advantages.^[1]