News Center- Human rights activist Mozhgan Ilanlo, who has supported the ongoing uprising in Iran and Rojhilatê Kurdistan since September 16, has announced on her social media account that the Ward 8 of Qarchak Prison, where she was held for a while, has been closed down thanks to the resistance of women.

Social media post of Mozhgan Ilanlo said:

“This news may be ordinary information for many people. This news has a different meaning for us, women prisoners, who were held in airless, waterless prisons in one of the most terrible times in contemporary history. We were arrested and sent to the Ward 8 of Qarchak Prison. The ward looked like a scene from a horror movie. It was overcapacity. It was a ward, where those who opposed the system were held.  In Ward 8, we tried to calm the frightened girls down, control the head lice that got into their hair to prevent their spread. Once, an officer, who delivered us the prison meals, shyly said, ‘What a shame, they gave us this little pot for 60-100 people. We witnessed the tears and desperation of those little girls.

‘What we experienced will one day be told’

What we experienced will one day be told. Today, we learned that Ward 8 was closed down. Today, we are celebrating our victory. Celebrating the resistance of a generation of women having many stories to be told, poems to be written and secrets to be revealed.

We remember the dark and cold days when we counted the tiles and stones of the ward so as not to lose track of time and space. We remember the days when we longed to see the sky, the days when we breathed the smell of the first autumn rain through the window of the ward.

Our friends held in Evin prison must be immediately released.

Jin, Jiyan, Azadi.

All political prisoners must be immediately released…”