Evin

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Evin(Evîn, Avîn) is a popular Kurdish female name which means 'love'. It can also be spelt 'Avin'. 'Evindar', in Kurdish, means one who is in love.

Evin is a neighbourhood in the north of Tehran.

The district consists of an old section, filled with orchards and gardens of old houses, and a new section, with towering high rises and gleaming skyscrapers.[1]

It is adjacent to Shahid Beheshti University campus and is notorious for the nearby Evin Prison, a detention center famous for atrocities committed against political prisoners, both in pre-1979 period and in the post-revolutionary period.

It is minutes away from the popular and beautiful Darakeh hiking trail. Hiking is a national pastime in Iran, and this trail thus brings many tourists to the area.[2][3]