Covid-19 crisis in Evin, Gholamreza Avanloo and Mohammadreza Jahanbani catch Covid-19
16-November-2020
Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement: Yesterday November 15, political prisoner Gholamreza Avanloo and an ordinary prisoner named Mohammad Reza Jahanbani, son of Ali, were transferred from Hall 3, Ward 4 of Evin Prison to the quarantine ward of the prison’s medical center.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Gholamreza Avanloo and Mohammadreza Jahanbani, two prisoners detained in Hall 3, Ward 4, of Evin Prison, having the symptoms of Covid-19, visited the prison medical center several times in the last one week. They however, being neglected by the treating physician, were returned back to the ward. The fact that obviously has increased the risk of infection transmission to all other prisoners in Ward 4 of Evin Prison.
As per the report, last week Mr. Mohammad Reza Tavassoli, another prisoner detained in the same hall also, being diagnosed with Covid-19, was transferred to a medical center out of the prison. However, during this period, prison officials and judicial authorities have seriously endangered the lives of prisoners by disregarding preventive protocols such as required personal distancing, as well as providing the inmates with hygienic facilities, including disinfectants, sanitizers and masks.
Breathing in Confinement had previously published a report on the involvement of the political prisoners Mohammad Amirkhizi and Payam Shakiba Covid-19. It needs to be mentioned that these two prisoners are also detained in Hall 3, Ward 4 of Evin Prison.