{"id":850,"date":"2015-10-20T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=850"},"modified":"2015-10-20T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T17:54:00","slug":"narges-mohammadi-should-be-released-immediately-and-given-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Narges Mohammadi Should Be Released Immediately and Given Medical Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Narges Mohammadi<\/p><\/div>\n

October 20, 2015 – The health of imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi has deteriorated, and the prominent human rights defender is now reportedly chained to a hospital bed, denied proper medical treatment for a worsening neurological condition, and prevented from normal family visitation.<\/p>\n

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran calls for the immediate release of Mohammadi, and the immediate provision of full medical care for the ailing activist.
\n\u201cThe imprisonment of this internationally renowned activist is a travesty of justice in itself,\u201d said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Campaign. \u201cBut the fact that she is chained to a bed and denied proper medical care is criminal. All interlocutors with Iran should explicitly demand Mohammadi\u2019s immediate release.\u201d
\nNarges Mohammadi was transferred to hospital on October 11, 2015, after suffering a seizure. She suffers from a neurological disorder that causes muscular paralysis.
\nAccording to her husband, Taghi Rahmani, who spoke with the Campaign, three agents keep watch over Mohammadi around the clock, and doctors believe that the stress caused by these circumstances are negatively affecting her neurological conditions.
\n\u201cA female agent inside the room and two male agents outside keep 24-hour watch. Doctors have asked the agents to lessen the security state of the room, so that they can continue their treatment more easily. Narges\u2019s illness is exacerbated by a stressful environment. They don\u2019t allow anyone but the medical staff to visit with Narges. The only exception is on Sundays, the weekly prisoner visitation day, when they allow Narges\u2019s sister to visit with her for ten minutes. Narges is not in prison. She is in a hospital. She needs one of her relatives to be by her bedside,\u201d said Rahmani.
\n\u201cNarges had a nervous attack [seizure] on October 7. The [prison] officials took her to Imam Khomeini Hospital, but she was returned to prison two days later. As her situation deteriorated, she was transferred back to another hospital under the care of her own neurologists on October 11,\u201d the activist\u2019s husband added.
\nNarges Mohammadi is receiving particularly harsh treatment by the prison authorities, as is routine in the case of political prisoners in Iran. Political prisoners are typically denied access to proper medical care, and suffer other punitive treatment such as denial of furlough, which is normally granted to other inmates for medical reasons or religious holidays, and family visitation.
\nIn a July 2015 letter\u00a0from prison Narges Mohammadi wrote about the authorities\u2019 refusal to allow her to visit with her children. \u201cThe entire time I was inside [the Intelligence Ministry\u2019s Ward] 209, they neither allowed me to hear their voices, nor did they allow me to see them. The bitterness and the sting of this \u2018deprivation,\u2019 which barred me from seeing those I hold dear, was no different than dying a slow death. I keep remembering my interrogator\u2019s words, \u2018You will pay with even more deprivations,’\u201d wrote Mohammadi.
\n\u201cNarges has also not been allowed telephone calls to her children for the past three months. Ever since the children came to stay with me [in France] three months ago, prison officials have not allowed Narges to contact her children, saying that this is because I am a fugitive suspect. It is every prisoner\u2019s right to have phone calls to her family members. I\u2019m sure if she can hear her children\u2019s voices it would have an impact on her recovery,\u201d Rahmani told the Campaign.
\nNarges Mohammadi, winner of the 2011 Per Anger prize\u00a0for her fight for human rights and women\u2019s freedom, was first arrested in 2009 and sentenced to 11 years in prison in October 2011 on charges of \u201cassembly and collusion against national security,\u201d \u201cmembership in the Defenders of Human Rights Center,\u201d and \u201cpropaganda against state.\u201d
\nThe Appeals Court reduced her sentence to six years in prison and in 2013 she was released from Zanjan prison on 600 million toman (approximately $200,000) bail for medical reasons. Her arrest in May 2015, ostensibly on these older charges, was more accurately related to Mohammadi\u2019s March 2014\u00a0visit with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton at the Austrian embassy in Tehran, as well as her continued peaceful activism.
\nSince earlier this month, Mohammadi has been scheduled to appear before Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court to face new charges of \u201ccollusion,\u201d \u201cassembly against national security,\u201d and \u201cmembership in Step by Step to Stop Death Penalty.\u201d Three previous court dates for her trial, on May 3, July 6, and October 7 of 2015, were all postponed.<\/p>\n

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\nHadi Ghaemi at +1-917-669-5996, hadighaemi@iranhumanrights.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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