Iranian human rights activist Raheleh Rahemipour suffered a coronary heart assault and was taken to the hospital on Thursday.
Rahemipour, one of many 4 political prisoners within the girls’s ward of Evin who’re over 70 years previous, was imprisoned in November to serve a five-year jail sentence regardless of her well being points, together with a mind tumor.
The Tehran Revolutionary Court, led by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, sentenced Rahemipour to 6 years in jail on costs of “propaganda towards the federal government” and makes an attempt to “disrupt nationwide safety.”
Her brother, Hossein Rahemipour, was additionally a political prisoner and was executed in 1984. His baby, born in Evin jail, was by no means returned to the household after his execution.
On Thursday, a bunch of 61 girls political prisoners within the girls’s ward of Evin went on a starvation strike to protest towards the Islamic Republic’s execution spree, together with the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou.