The author says state TV on 13 September 2026 showed Gohardasht Prison in Karaj being demolished for housing or shops. The piece treats it as a main 1980s political-prison and 1988-massacre site—and as erasing a documented crime scene.

Similar erasures cited: Behesht-e Zahra Plot 41 (2025) turned into parking; Tabriz, Mashhad, Ahvaz, and Khavaran graves. Families, the writer says, were never told burial places.

Sweden’s Hamid Noury case (life, 2022; upheld 2023) used survivor maps and a 444-name list from Gohardasht. The author’s ask: UN document what remains; walls can fall, the record cannot. That is advocacy.

On September 13, 2026, Iranian state media broadcast the demolition of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj in the presence of Heydar Asiabi, head of the Prisons Organization. Asiabi said the work had begun on orders from the judiciary chief and that the prison walls would be demolished within less than a month to prepare the site for residential or commercial development.

Gohardasht, however, was one of the regime’s main centers for the torture of political prisoners in the 1980s and a principal execution site during the 1988 massacre. After Evin, the highest number of prisoners in Tehran were hanged there. The demolition therefore marks an escalation: after years of destroying graves and burial grounds, the regime is now eliminating one of the massacre’s best-documented crime scenes.

A decades-long pattern of erasure

The destruction of Gohardasht........

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