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Tag : Medical Care

September 6, 2019

Female Political Prisoners To Serve Additional Two Years For “Insulting” Supreme Leader

Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi have ...

August 21, 2019

Political Prisoner Arash Sadeghi Denied Hospitalization Despite Loss of Arm Motion

The authorities of Evin Prison are denying political prisoner Arash Sadeghi hospitalization for a serious medical problem. Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi's loss of motion in his right arm hasn’t persuaded the ...

July 10, 2019

UN Seriously Concerned Over Iran’s “Consistent Pattern” of Denying Prisoners Medical Treatment

UN Press Release, GENEVA (10 July 2019) – UN human rights experts today expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls. “Over several months we have communicated to the Iranian ...

June 29, 2018

Political Prisoner “Wasting Away” as Iran Refuses to Provide Medical Tests For Potentially Cancerous Bone Tumor

Iranian civil rights activist and political prisoner Arash Sadeghi is being denied medical leave to undergo testing for a bone tumor that could be cancerous. A source with knowledge of ...

February 7, 2018

Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident Nizar Zakka is being denied medical attention in Evin Prison despite being told by his doctor ...

September 15, 2017

Iranian Journalist Gets Cancer After Being Denied Medical Care in Evin Prison

Iranian journalist Alireza Rajaee lost an eye and part of his face after his sinus cancer was left untreated as a political prisoner in Evin Prison....

September 4, 2017

Journalist Loses Eye and Part of His Face to Cancer Untreated While in Prison

Journalist Alireza Rajaee loses an eye due to denied medical treatment for cancer during imprisonment. Iran’s Systematic Denial ...

April 21, 2016

Imprisoned Physicist Loses Kidney to Cancer, Must Be Released Permanently

Omid Kokabee’s Life Endangered by Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison April 21, 2016—Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over 5 years for his refusal to ...

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