Iran: Maryam Akbari Monfared Deprived Medical Treatment in Evin Prison Women's Ward
Iranian political prisoner, Maryam
Akbari Monfared, incarcerate in Evin prison women’s ward in Tehran, is deprived
of medical treatment and dispatch to hospital despite her illness and urgent
medical needs as complications of her illness is progressing.
According to reports, Ms. Maryam
Akbari is experiencing intense pain in the knee joints and feet as she is
denied medical treatment and Evin prison officials despite awareness about her
pain and physical condition, refuse to send her to hospital or medical centers
for treatment.
Regarding Ms. Akbari’s health
condition, an informed source close to her family said; “Maryam this week in a
meeting with her family complained about severe knee and joint pain such that
due to the pain she cannot sleep at night. However, the prison officials do not
pay attention and do not provide medical care or prepare the condition for her
medical treatment.”
According to the same reports,
Maryam Akbari Monfared until two months ago was regularly dispatched along with
several security agents to medical centers outside prison to receive medical
treatment for her rheumatoid and hip, knee and joint pain. However, after she
filed an official complaint demanding clarification and investigation of the
case of her brothers and sisters, executed during the massacre of politicalprisoners in 1988, officials of the Prosecutor’s Office in an act of “reprisal”
stopped the process of her medical treatment. The measure, according to prison
officials, has been taken on the orders of Tehran’s Prosecutor.
Amnesty International in a recent
statement, referring to the poor and unfavorable situation of the political
prisoners Maryam Akbari Monfared in Evin Prison, protested against denial of
her right to receive medical treatment.
Because: His three brothers and a
sister were killed in the 1988 massacre and
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