NCRI – The abuse and denial of medical treatment of political prisoners is continuing across Iran, according to the latest reports from with the regime.
Prisoner Asghar Ghatan has been prevented from receiving treatment for cancer, amid widespread claims that officials have begun replacing executions with the slow torturing to death of political prisoners.
Mr Ghatan was first jailed for six years in the 80s for supporting the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and then arrested again in 2010 on the charges of having connections with the PMOI.
In Mashhad, the capital of the north eastern Khorassan province -intelligence agents arrested three Baha’i citizens on August 13, named as Fattaneh Nabilzadeh, Peyman Sarraf and Dayan Teimouri.
At Bandar Abbas prison, in the Persian Gulf province of Hormozgan, political prisoner Arjang Davoodi has been tried for a second time after already being condemned to 20 years imprisonment for his opposition to the mullahs. In his new trial, Mr Davoodi, who has not been appointed a lawyer, now faces a charge of Moharebeh, meaning ‘enmity with God’ and carries the death sentence.
In Orumiyeh, the capital of the north western Orumiyeh province, political prisoner Sami Hosseini has gone on hunger strike in protest at his transfer to a criminal ward.
And in Tabriz, the capital of the north western province of Azerbaijan, 20 youths have gone on trial charged with ‘attempting to start a protest’ for helping earthquake victims in Varzaghan in September 2012.
