Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who is on death row in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, says prisoners have been left locked up without food and few guards following US-Israeli strikes on Iran's capital, his wife told AFP on Wednesday.Vida Mehrannia said she had managed to speak to her husband, who is being kept in a hospital ward of the prison, "for two minutes" on the phone on Tuesday.
"I had a short call with Ahmadreza yesterday and he told me they don't have food, the situation is really bad and they are afraid of what will happen," Mehrannia told AFP.
She said her husband told her that guards were still posted outside the prison, "but inside the jail, they locked the door and left."
Prisoners had been left with only bread to eat, he told her.
Mehrannia said she was not aware of how many guards were still guarding the prison's exterior.
Djalali, 54, is an Iranian who was sentenced to death in 2017 on espionage charges and was granted Swedish nationality while behind bars.
He suffered a heart attack last year and was transferred to the prison's hospital section.
Mehrannia said that since US-Israeli attacks began near the prison, Djalali reported that inmates felt "hopeless" and in "a lot of stress".
During last year's Israeli strikes on Iran in June, Evin prison -- a large, heavily fortified complex in the north of Tehran -- was hit by an Israeli strike which left sections of the facility damaged.
