NCRI – According to reports received from the women's ward of infamous Evin prison in Tehran, Ms. Kobra Amirkhizi, 56, who had suffered from bleeding in one of her eyes in ward 209 of this prison, is in serious danger of losing her eyesight.
Ms. Amirkhizi, from a well known family in Tehran that has had a number of its members executed by the mullahs’ regime, is mother to a resident of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to the nearly 3,500 members of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Ms. Amirkhizi, denied medical treatment in Evin prison has been told by a staff of prison’s clinic, "you still have time before you can see only under your feet".
On Friday afternoon, January 16, 2009, dozens of family members of Ashraf City residents, including Ms. Amirkhizi, were traveling to Iraq in order to see their relatives. They were arrested at Tehran airport. The majority of those arrested were women between 60 to 80 years of age, and have been violently beaten by Intelligence Ministry henchmen.
The arrested families were placed in solitary confinement in Evin’s Ward 209. Their homes also were raided and searched by the regime’s suppressive forces. Their belongings were seized and even their children were threatened by armed men.
Ms. Amirkhizi’s family has gone to the first branch of the so-called Revolutionary Court to follow up on her case. In their last meeting on February 27 with the head of this branch, they were told, "Our superiors ordered that we do not release her because many of her close relatives are in Camp Ashraf".
