Ali Asghar Jahangir, the chairman of Iran’s Prisons Organization says he hopes to avoid incidents like “Kahrizak” occurring again with regards to the recent arrested protesters.

After the 2009 protests in Iran, several prisoners were killed under torture in Kahrizak detention center.

Jahangir said: “The incidents in 2009 occurred in a facility that was not under the supervision of the judiciary and the Prisons Organization.”

When asked “are all those arrested during the protests this year under the supervision of Prisons Organization,” Jahangir responded: “The law enforcement and security officials must answer this issue.”

In recent days, thousands of protesters have been arrested by the IRGC intelligence, police, and the Intelligence Ministry, but no information has been released about their whereabouts or conditions.

Although the Islamic Republic has refused to release the official number of citizens arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran Human Rights Campaign has announced that according to their reliable sources, at least 2755 people have been arrested by different security organizations during the protests. The organization states that the actual figure is most likely close to 4000.

Jahangir also said the reason that the Prisons Organization does not respond to the inquiries by the families of prisoners is that the families should direct their questions at the judiciary, and that “the Prisons Organization is only responsible for holding the people who have been arrested.”

Human Rights organizations have repeatedly expressed concerns about the bad conditions of Iranian prisons and lack of space for the high number of people arrested.

Earlier this year, Jahangir said in an interview that Iranian prisons are filled twice their capacity.