Ebrat Museum
District 12, Iran
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Located in District 12 of Tehran, the Ebrat Museum occupies a building constructed in the 1930s as the Anti-sabotage Joint Committee (Komiteh Moshtarak), a repurposed prison built with German assistance that opened in 1937 under Reza Shah's reign. Designed in the Pahlavi architectural style, it served as a detention and interrogation center for the regime's secret police, SAVAK, targeting political opponents. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Islamic Republic renamed it Towhid and continued its use as a political prison until reports of torture during 1999 student protests prompted its closure in August 2000. The former prison now functions as a museum, though historians have noted its narrative emphasizes an Islamist perspective while minimizing accounts of leftist and ethnic liberation victims held there across both regimes.
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