NCRI – An Iranian Christian political prisoner is in a critical condition after 23 days on hunger strike in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
Maryam Naghash Zargaran, a newly-converted Christian, has a blood pressure of 70/50 and is numb from her knees down; a doctor had confirmed that she has heart disease. Zargaran’s family demanded that she be released for treatment but the regime’s Intelligence Ministry agents have refused.
Zargaran began her hunger strike on July 5, 2016, to protest the inhumane condition of prison and to demand an unconditional release. She continued her hunger strike in support of fellow political prisoner, Narges Mohammadi, who was protesting the Iranian regime’s denial of contact with her children.
Zargaran was sentenced by the mullahs’ kangaroo courts to four years in prison on national security charges involving illegal gatherings and collusion, but she has never had these charges addressed in a proper court of law. She has been held in the Women’s Ward of Evin Prison since July 15, 2013.