Iran creates forced labour camp for prisoners
Head of Iran's Prisons Organisation Gholamhosseini Esmaeili said that the country is currently constructing a forced labour camp in Tehran for drug-smuggling related prisoners.
"In case of there being no fund shortages, the construction operation will be finished in four months," he said, the IRNA News Agency reported.
He noted that Iran has already inaugurated two such forced
labour camps in Isfahan and Khorasan Razavi provinces.
"Constructing three labour camps in Tehran, Kerman and Sistan and
Balouchestan provinces would cost 1.2 trillion rials ($37.5 million
based on the USD price on the free market)," Esmaeili said.
"Some 700 billion rials ($21.87 million) of the mentioned amount have been allocated to the projects during the previous administration period," he said, adding the aforementioned amount has not yet been paid to the contractor.
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