'Risk of riots'

The wife of another prisoner at Evin, Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Jalali, said she had spoken to her husband but had no clarity about his fate.

Vida Mehrannia told AFP her husband, who is on death row, had called her to say he was being moved but did not know where he was going.

"Is it because they want to carry out the sentence or for another reason," she said.

"I don't know. After the call, I don't even know if they transferred him or not."

Jalali, who was arrested in 2016 and sentenced to death in 2017 for spying for Israel, was granted Swedish nationality while in jail.

Several people accused of spying for Israel have been executed in recent weeks in Iran, leaving Mehrannia deeply worried about her husband.

Chirinne Ardakani, a lawyer for the Kohler family, denounced the strikes as "illegal".

"The risk of riots, general confusion and reprisals by the security forces against the insurgent prisoners raises fears of bloodshed," she told AFP.

"Both sides are playing with people's lives."

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