Political prisoners in Iran suffer from lack of access to treatment

NCRI – The condition of a political prisoner who has been diagnosed with cancer but denied medical treatment by the Iranian regime is now reported to be critical.

According to reports, Mohsen Dokmechi, a cancer patient, has been denied chemotherapy and other forms of treatment on the orders of Tehran’s general prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi.

Mr. Dokmechi is the father of one of the residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. He was also a political prisoner for nearly a decade in the 1980s, accused of supporting the main opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

Separately, it was reported that the physical condition of political prisoner Mansour Osanlou, the head of the Greater Tehran Bus Union, is also critical.

Mr. Osanlou is suffering from a serious heart condition, but the regime’s henchmen in Gohardasht Prison are refusing him access to medical treatment.