NCRI – The Iranian regime’s officials have refused to allow sick leave to a student political prisoner jailed for a speech in which he ‘insulted the regime’.
Tehran’s prosecutor and the intelligence ministry denied the request from Majid Tavakoli and his family due to the ‘seriousness’ of his offences – despite a 600 million Tomans bail being paid for him last September.
One of Majid’s close relatives has now threatened to reveal details of the refused request to the media, adding: “If they don’t give Majid a sick leave and continue with this mental torture, throwing his relatives from the Intelligence Ministry to the prosecutor back and forth like a ball, his family will break their silence and will publish every detail.”
Majid has spent more than three and half years in prison without receiving any sick leave.
The student majoring in ship manufacturing at Amir Kabir Industrial University (Tehran’s Polytechnic) was arrested for the third time on December 7, 2009, after giving a speech to the students at the university.
He was then accused of ‘propaganda against the government’, ‘holding an anti-government gathering’, ‘insulting the leader’ and ‘insulting the president’ and sentenced to eight years imprisonment with physical punishment, five years deprivation of political activities and a five-year ban on leaving the country.
