Iran: reservations

Iran Human Rights Voice writes an article about the more frequent occurrance of prsioners who die in Iranian prisons.
They write that the dead of two prisoners within two weeks show that the judiciary apparatus and prison authorities are not committed to preserving and securing the lives of prisoners while they are incarcerated.
Amir-Hussein Heshmat-Saran and Omid-Reza Sayafi were two prisoners with multiple physical ailments and needed to seek proper medical care and treatment outside of prison..
Nevertheless the Ministry of Information and the Revolutionary Courts don't allow political prisoners out of their sight,limiting the extent of the prisoners’ treatments inside the prison.
Article 102 and 103 of Iran Prison System Constitution and Prison’s Responsibility for Providing Care clarify the medical treatment for prisoners, in which article 102 provides medical testing to all prisoners in medical facilities at least once a month and article 103 states that when prisoners require medical care outside of the prison, the attending physicians are required to alert the prison authorities who ask the judge to authorize. In emergencies prisonauthorities can authorize themselves.
In the past two years, at least five political prisoners have died under such conditions.
It seems that the improper and insufficient medical care administered inside prisons will result in the deaths of more prisoners in future.
The next three prisoners require urgent need of proper medical care outside of prison.
Mohammad-Sedigh Kaboodvand,the head of Kurdistan Human Rights Defense Organization, detained in Evinprison, last year suffered a number of heart attacks, and is in urgent need of treatment outside the prison.
Abas Khorsandi chairman of the Iran Democratic Party, convicted to eight years in prison.He is considered to be a political prisoner. He has a heart ailment, he is also suffering from a psychological disorder, continuous headaches and gastrological problems, and requires close medical attention.
Mansour Osanloo Head of the management board in the bus drivers’ union. He is convicted to 5 years in prison. He suffers from an acute eye problem, for which he even though he had an eye surgery, got not enough time for convalescence in the hospital.
Ebrahim Madadi another boardmember of the Union, suffers from diabetes and has a prostratecondition.
source: ihrv.org


Kurdish political prisoner Anvar Hussein Panahi went into a hunger strike at the beginning of this Iranian New Year.
With this hunger strike he protests to his deathsentence.
source: hrairan.org




The body of Ali Badozadeh who was arrested and transferred to an unknown location by Intelligence agents mid March, was discovered in the town of Mahabad after 8 days.
He was arrested on accusations of cooperating with the Kurdish political parties, and having information regarding the activities of his nephew and some others who have been collaborating with the Kurdish political parties in the past couple of months.
His body was bearing the evidences of beatings and torture.
source: hrairan.org

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Children are being hanged to death.
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