Sep. 22, 2010
Death row political prisoner Abdolreza Qanbari is suffering from bleeding in his kidney and is in poor physical condition.
Despite his constant moaning at night, prison officials pay no attention to his condition and refuse to give him treatment.
Qanbari was arrested after Ashura events (December 27, 2009) and was sentenced to death on charges of having links to the PMOI by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Qazi Salavati. This sentence was upheld by the 36th branch of the court of review headed by Judge Zargar and was announced to the Sentence Implementation Department.
This teacher has said that the charges against him were baseless. His wife who is also a teacher has been constantly threatened by the Ministry of Intelligence that she would be fired. Qanbari is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison. Sahel Qanbari, his daughter is in bad spirits after hearing of her father’s death sentence.
His family did not give any interviews to the media regarding the condition of this political prisoner because of pressures from the Ministry of Intelligence.
Sep. 22, 2010
According to reports, the physical condition of political prisoner Farah Vazehan who was sentenced to death after being arrested on Ashura (December 27, 2009) is suffering from a critical heart condition and is in very bad health. Interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence prevent her from receiving treatment in a hospital outside of prison.
Farah (Elmira) Vazehan was taken to the emergency room of Modares Hospital in Tehran on September 9 because of her critical heart condition.
She was shacked to the hospital bed while in critical condition and 3 security forces were in her room at all times. This is while a person suffering from a heart condition should not be put under stress. Doctors were conducting tests to treat her when interrogators ordered that she be returned to Evin Prison and she was taken back to prison in that condition.
She is also suffering from other illnesses such as a severe lack of iron to the extent that she has to be hospitalized every month. But since her arrest, she has been deprived of treatment and this has deteriorated her health putting her life in danger.
This political prisoner is a 49 year old homemaker. She was arrested two days after massive protests on Ashura by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in her home along with her husband and two children and was transferred to a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison.
Her husband Ali Memari, 58 and her two children (Yansa Memari, 25 and Mehdi Memari, 27) were detained in solitary for a month and were subjected to physical and mental torture in this time. Her daughter Yansa Memari is suffering from lymph cancer and was under treatment when arrested. She was temporarily released from prison after one month because of her deteriorating physical health.
Vazehan was detained in a solitary cell in cellblock 209 under physical and mental torture and was then transferred to the female cellblock in Evin Prison. She was taken to the 15th branch of the Revolutionary court and the head of this court, Salavati, lied to her family and said that she would soon be released and deceived this family in this way. She was sentenced to death on July 4 by this court branch.
Two head interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence nicknamed Alavi and Saied Sheikhan made fabricated charges against her such as waging war with God, propagating against the government by having communications with the PMOI and insulting the leader.
Her lawyer and family have protested this sentence and according to reports, her case is currently being reviewed in the 31st branch of Supreme Court.
Ailing jailed protester denied medical leave because he can’t afford bailSep. 22, 2010
Mehdi Fatah Bakhsh, a political prisoner who was arrested in the post-election events has been denied the right to a medical leave because his family cannot afford to provide his bail.
Mehdi Fatah Bakhsh who was arrested on June 16, 2009 has been detained for the past 14 months in a solitary cell and cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
His family did not know anything about his health months after his arrest until they saw his public court which was broadcasted from state-run TV.
He was sentenced to 42 months of prison on charges of ‘participating in the march, disrupting national security and throwing stones at agents’ and is serving his time. He has not been granted even a one day leave in this time.
The Tehran prosecutor recently set a 400 million toman (about 400,000 dollar) bail for a leave from prison for him and after his family said that they could not afford such an amount it was lowered to 300 million tomans (300,000 dollars), but his family is not able to pay this amount because of their financial condition and because they have no personal property.
This political prisoner is in bad physical health and his ankle and shoulder were dislocated twice in his time in prison and because of the lack of proper treatment, he now has problems walking.
Iran sentences Kurd activist to 16 years of prison Sep. 22, 2010
On Monday this week, Mokhtar Houshmand was sentenced to 16 years of prison by the Marivan Revolutionary Court on charges of espionage, spreading propaganda against the government and cooperating with dissident groups. His sentence was announced to him on Wednesday.
According to Kurdish news sources, Houshmand was arrested by security forces on May 23 in Marivan.
Security forces told the family of this artist not to spread the news of his arrest or talk to the media.
Houshmand is an artist, cultural activist, the head of the Marivan Visual Arts Association and the executive manager of the yearly design festival in West Iran and had set up numerous visual art presentations in Marivan and other cities in Kurdistan.
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
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