United Nations human rights specialists expressed deep concern on Wednesday concerning the Iranian authorities’s constant refusal to offer “well timed and acceptable medical care” to human rights defenders and different detainees.
They highlighted disturbing patterns of mistreatment of Iranian detainees, together with inadequate entry to primary medical care, and positioned explicit emphasis on the plight of human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
“Our deep issues concerning Narges Mohammadi’s bodily and psychological integrity have been conveyed to the Iranian authorities,” the specialists stated in an announcement on the UN web site.
The assertion additionally highlighted the scenario of different detainees, together with Fatemeh Sepefli, a outstanding political prisoner and outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic. Despite affected by a coronary heart situation, Sepefli faces a 37-and-a-half-year sentence, elevating severe issues about her well being.
“We are equally involved about 4 others – Fatemeh Sepehli, Mahmoud Mehlavi, Davood Razavi, Hasan Saeedi and Reza Shahabi Zakaria – who had been denied correct medical care regardless of medical assessments and studies indicating the urgency of their therapy,” the specialists stated.
Medical specialists, supported by MRI and CT scan assessments, stated Mohammadi had been affected by acute again and knee ache, together with a herniated disc, for the previous eight months, the web site reported.
In early August, Mohammadi was reportedly bodily assaulted by jail guards within the ladies’s ward of Evin Prison, leaving her unconscious and struggling accidents to her rib cage and different elements of her physique.
The riots broke out after Mohammadi and several other feminine prisoners gathered within the jail yard to protest the demise sentence of a 34-year-old Iranian man arrested throughout anti-government protests in Kermanshah province in 2022.
During the assault, Mohammadi, who has a coronary heart situation, was “struck a number of occasions within the chest by male troopers and guards” and collapsed on the jail grounds with extreme chest pains. Despite her situation, no try was made to move her to a clinic or hospital.
“The denial of medical care seems to be getting used to punish and silence Ms. Mohammadi in jail. These studies increase severe issues concerning her well being and proper to bodily well being,” the UN specialists stated.
“The medical care of prisoners and the duty to not expose any prisoner to ill-treatment are State duties,” the specialists burdened, recalling that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a celebration to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). “Prisoners have the proper to medical care equal to that accessible locally and in case of emergency, care have to be taken to make sure immediate entry to medical care,” the specialists burdened.
“We reiterate our name for the instant launch of human rights defenders and all different people at present being arbitrarily detained in Iranian detention services,” the assertion added.
Amnesty International highlighted the seriousness of the scenario, claiming that Iranian authorities have successfully turned the nation’s prisons into “demise ready rooms.”
Human rights teams additionally burdened that a lot of suspicious deaths in custody lately suspected to be linked to denial of medical care spotlight an alarming disaster of impunity for violations of the proper to life.