HACKERS have leaked horrific videos of inmates being beaten inside Iran's notorious "hell hole" Evin prison where prisoners are raped and executed.

       The boss of Iran's prison service apologised today after leaked security footage revealed horror scenes of inmates brawling and guards dragging prisoners.

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       The footage revealed horror scenes of inmates brawling and guards beating prisoners Credit: Twitter 6

       One video shows several guards beating a man in handcuffs Credit: twitter 6

       A prisoner lies in a doorway as guards ignore him Credit: Twitter

       In one shocking scene, a prisoner smashes a bathroom mirror to try to slash his arm, and another shows a gaunt man being dumped in a courtyard and dragged through the prison semi-conscious.

       A Muslim cleric later steps over the injured man as he lies in a doorway.

       Another video shows several guards beating a man in handcuffs, and another shows a violent fight between a guard and another man in uniform.

       Former inmates have previously revealed the terrifying conditions inside the prison - including rapist guards, hangings in the courtyard and prisoners being driven insane from isolation and beaten so hard they vomit blood.

       A hacker group called Adalat Ali - or "Ali's Justice" - released the shocking videos, mostly timestamped in 2020 and 2021, after staging a cyberattack on the prison.

       And the hackers also managed to get access to the prison's control room.

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       A video shows a guard jumping to his feet as the monitors in front of him flash red and shut down, Al Jazeera reports.

       An image widely shared on social media showed a screen with the words "Cyberattack" and a message slamming Evin as a "shameful stain" and called for "the release of political prisoners".

       According to The Times, the messages referred to Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, who has been accused of ordering mass executions and overseeing torture at Evin in the 1980s.

       Brits with dual Iranian citizenship, such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, and Anoosheh Ashoori, 67, have been held in the prison on alleged spying charges.

       'UNACCEPTABLE BEHAVIOUR'

       In 2019, travel blogger Jolie King was detained in the hell hole along with her Australian boyfriend Mark Firkin for allegedly flying a drone near the capital, Tehran.

       The Iranians held her as a bargaining chip as part of a planned prisoner swap deal with the United States.

       Prisons Organisation chief Mohammad Mehdi Haj-Mohammadi today said he took responsibility for the "unacceptable behaviour".

       "I also apologise to God, our dear supreme leader, the great nation and the honourable prison guards, whose efforts will certainly not be ignored due to these errors," Mohammadi wrote on Twitter.

       Mohammad Mossadegh Kahnamouy, the deputy head of the judicial authority, said the case was being investigated, the ISNA news agency reports.

       CHRONIC OVERCROWDING

       Amnesty International and other campaigners have condemned the hellish conditions and human rights abuses in Evin for years.

       The prisoners face chronic overcrowding, severely limited hot water, poor ventilation, and infestations of cockroaches and mice, particularly near kitchen areas, Amnesty said.

       Inmates have also described being forced to sleep on the floor - including during cold winter months due to a shortage of beds - and being fed "barely edible" meals.

       Javaid Rehman, a UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, has repeatedly named Evin as a prison where inmates are abused, according to The Times.

       He said Iran's prison system faced "longstanding overcrowding and hygiene deficiencies" and "insurmountable obstacles for responding to Covid-19".

       "Prisoners of conscience and political prisoners have contracted Covid-19 or experienced symptoms, with many denied testing or treatment or suffering unnecessary delays in receiving test results and treatment," he said.

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       A gaunt man was dragged through the prison by the guards Credit: Twitter 6

       A gaunt man was shown being dropped in a courtyard Credit: Twitter 6

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