Ahmad Daneshpour Moqaddam – whose family belong to the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK)- is suffering from intestinal colitis and on the verge of contracting digestive cancer.
But prison officials have so far denied urgent medical treatment to Mr Danehspour, who was arrested in December 2009 concurrent and sentenced to death on charges of
supporting the PMOI.
Political prisoner Mohsen Dogmechi has died after also being refused cancer treatment, while the life of another critically ill prisoner named as Ahmad Daneshpour Moqaddam – arrested during the 2009 uprisings on anti government propaganda charges – is also at risk.
Prisoner Seyed Ziah Nabavi is currently refusing to attend court in handcuffs and chains to be put on trial for
publishing articles about the plight of political prisoners, in particular an Arab activist and blogger recently sentenced to death.
Mr Nabavi is a chemical engineering student at Babol Noshirvani University, and was a member of the student Islamic association from 2003 to 2007. He was arrested for the first time in 2007 after he went on hunger strike in protest at the nightly attacks by security forces on the university. He has so far been in Evin, Karoon and Ahvaz prisons.
Intelligence ministry agents also raided the home of Allah Verdi Rouhi, 64, and arrested him without charge, according to reports. Mr Rouhi has two children in Camp Liberty. Others recently arrested include Davoud Mirzaii and Hamid Maibodi, both on charges of being related to members of the PMOI.