Saeed Eghbali, a political prisoner in Evin Prison, is deprived of medical care
25-November-2020
Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement November 24, 2020: Despite a 70% rupture of his right eardrum, and while suffering from severe ear pain and infection, Saeed Eghbali, a political prisoner in Evin, has been deprived of medical care.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, despite the poor physical condition of the political prisoner, Saeed Eghbali and his urgent need for medical care, judicial authorities have prevented him from being transferred to medical facilities. Meanwhile, the prison’s medical doctor has repeatedly emphasized that Mr. Eghbali urgently needs to undergo an ear surgery. The prison doctor emphasized that if Mr. Eghbali did not start the treatment process, there was a possibility of loss of hearing in his right ear.
Mr. Eghbali’s ear problem happened as a result of being beaten during his arrest in 2017.
On February 1, 2018, at his home in Kermanshah, Saeed Eghbali was arrested by intelligence agents and was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Center at Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Later on March 22, 2018, Mr. Eghbali was released from prison on a bail of 100 million Tomans.
In September 2019, in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, headed by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, the civil activist Saeed Eghbali, was sentenced to five years in prison on charge of “gathering and colluding to act against national security” as well as one year in prison on charge of “propaganda activities against the regime.” And the verdict was upheld by Branch 36 of Tehran Court of Appeals. According to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, the most severe punishment, ie 5 years in prison, is applicable to him on the charge of “gathering and colluding to act against national security.”
On May 31, 2020, to serve his sentence, Saeed Eghbali was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison