Ali Moezi, 63, has been deprived of urgent hospital care for bladder cancer and bleeding kidneys, and visits from loved ones, for six months over his refusal to attend Iran’s sham revolutionary courts, it was reported.
On the most recent occasion, family members were turned away from the gates of Tehran’s Evin prison on April 8.
Mr Moezi was transferred to solitary confinement in Evin prison six months ago for refusing to participate in a sham trial presided over by hard-line judge Salavati – know as the ‘death judge’.
After enduring a spell as a political prisoner in the 1980s, Mr Moezi was arrested again in November 2008 for visiting his two children in Camp Ashraf, and was sentenced to two years in prison.
In June 2011, a few days after surgery, he was once again arrested for participating in the funeral of Mohsen Dogmechi, a PMOI supporter who was tortured to death in prison after also being deprived of medical treatment.