Motahareh Bahrami Haghighi, 62, has been told by doctors she must undergo surgery, but a prosecutor has refused her permission to be transferred to hospital.
Ms Motahareh Bahrami and her 71-year-old husband Mohsen Daneshpour Moqaddam, along with their son Ahmad Daneshpour Moqaddam and two other relatives, Rayhaneh Haj Ibrahim Dabagh and Hadi Qaemi, were all arrested at their homes on December 27, 2009.
Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpour were sentenced to death, Motahareh Bahrami to 10 years imprisonment and exile to Gohardasht Prison, Karaj, Rayhaneh Haj Ibrahim Dabagh to 15 years imprisonment and exile to Gohardasht Prison, Karaj and Hadi Qaemi to 15 years imprisonment and exile to Gonbad Kavoos Prison, Golestan Province.
At Orumieh prison, relatives of political prisoner Ramezan Saeidi say they have been denied any information about his medical condition for 11 months and he has been refused all contact with his family.
Mr Saeidi was arrested in 2005 at his father’s business premises near Orumieh. He was convicted of supporting several regime opposition groups and sentenced to eight years in prison. He is currently serving the seventh year of sentence in Gohardasht Prison, Karaj.