Two Admitted to Hospital; One Passed Away

The insistence by judiciary and intelligence officials to keep ailing prisoners in prison and not providing them with adequate medial care has resulted in a critical health condition for two prisoners and the death of a third at the notorious Evin Prison.  presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s senior advisor, seyyed Alireza Beheshti, suffered a heart attack yesterday due to the prison’s unfavorable condition and a previous ailment.  In the past few days, despite his ailment, he was forced to wait for several hours in the cold winter weather, wearing only prison garb and flip-flops at the Revolutionary Court.  In a conversation with his family following his stroke, he said that he was “relatively better.”

Meanwhile, seyyed Hassan Ahmadian, head of the Mousavi campaign’s public committee was transferred from the Evin Prison to the Atieh Hospital in Tehran due to a deteriorating kidney condition.  Ahmadian’s family members had repeatedly requested from the judiciary to grant Ahmadian short-term release for medical treatment, which the judiciary opposed.  Ahmadian was previously scheduled to undergo surgery on January 23. 

The indifference to the medical condition of prisoners continues while the lives of several political prisoners, including Ebrahim Yazdi, Mohammad Maleki, Emadeddin Baghi, etc., is in danger.

One Prisoner Dies in Evin

A political prisoner serving a life sentence passed away yesterday due to prison officials’ failure to provide him with medical treatment.  Alborz Ghasemi, who was serving a life sentence on charges of Moharebeh [armed resistance against God] through cooperation with an unspecified political group, was suffering from gastric cancer.

Although Ghasemi had been suffering from gastric cancer for several years, in prison, prison officials refused to grant him short-term leave or provide him with medical treatment. 

New Judgments Issued
One judiciary official announced yesterday the issuance of 6 acquittal judgments, 4 probation verdicts and the confirmation of 13 lower court verdicts in connection with individuals arrested in post-election events.  The cases of these 23 individuals were presided over by Judge Zargar at Branch 36 of the appellate court.

700 Million Toman Bail for 5-Day Release

Mohsen Safaei-Farahani was granted a 5-day release yesterday after seven months of “temporary detention” by posting a 7-billion Rial bail. 

Safaei, who is a senior member of the reformist Islamic Iran Participation Front, was previously sentenced by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court to a 6-year term.  He has spent more than 4 months in solitary confinement.