Alireza Rasooli in Critical Condition after 48 Days of Hunger Strike
27-December-2014
Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement – Alireza Rasooli, political prisoner at Central Prison of Uremia, has been on hunger strike for 48 days, so far.
According to the report of “Breathing in Confinement”, Alireza Rasooli has gone on hunger strike since 9th November 2014 and remains in serious condition and he was transferred to prison clinic.
One of his close relatives in an interview, regarding his latest condition, told “Breathing in Confinement’s” reporter, “On 25th December, Alireza Rasooli was transferred to prison clinic and the doctors emphasized that he should not even drink tea and due to his stomach bleeding, he is just able to drink sugary fluid.”
Alireza Rasooli suffers from severe osteoporosis and prison authorities deny providing appropriate medical care or refuse to give medical leave permission to him.
According to his relatives, prison officials have told him as he was suffering from this disease before being arrested, so that, they cannot pay for his medical treatment and, on the other hand, as he is a political prisoner, they cannot let him go on medical leave.
This political prisoner was arrested in March 2012 in Mahabad and by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad city was sentenced to 3 and a half years imprisonment.
This political prisoner was arrested after the gathering in front of the Governor office in Mahabad after burning incident in the school in Shinabad.