Iran: Tortured prisoners of conscience Mohammad Ali Nouri and Mokhtar Alboshkeh in urgent need of medical care Hunger striking prisoners of conscience Mohammad Ali Amouri and Mokhtar Alboshkheh, and a third hunger striking prisoner and older person, Ghassem Sanjeri,

 

Iran: Tortured prisoners of conscience Mohammad Ali Nouri and Mokhtar Alboshkeh in urgent need of medical care Hunger striking prisoners of conscience Mohammad Ali Amouri and Mokhtar Alboshkheh, and a third hunger striking prisoner and older person, Ghassem Sanjeri,

 all three from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, urgently require medical care, including for injuries believed to have been sustained from torture and other ill-treatment, including from beatings by prison guards and plainclothes intelligence agents while held in prolonged solitary confinement. The three men were transferred by plainclothes ministry of intelligence agents from a general ward in Sheiban prison in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, to an unidentified location on or around 29 April 2021. According to information gathered by Amnesty International from an informed source, the three men were transferred to an unknown location after being physically assaulted by other prisoners. The source added that instead of intervening to protect them, prison officials and plainclothes agents beat them subsequently. In the following weeks, the authorities denied the families of Mohammadi Ali Amouri and Mokhtar Alboshkheh information about their fate and whereabouts, thereby committing the crime of enforced disappearance. On 18 May, their families learned that since on or about 29 April, they had been held in solitary confinement in Sheiban prison and that on 10 May the three men started a hunger strike in protest at their treatment by the prison and prosecution officials and their conditions of detention including denial of access to books. According to information gathered by Amnesty International from informed sources, on 18 May, while still on hunger strike, Mokhtar Alboshkeh was allowed to have a brief visit with a family member. During this visit, he was unable to walk unassisted, raising serious concerns about his health and wellbeing. He also reported suffering from severe kidney pains and being denied health care, including the medication he requires for his pre-existing kidney stones. According to informed sources, the next day, on 19 May, Mohammad Ali Amouri was taken by wheelchair to the prison’s medical clinic. However, shortly after, he was taken to an unknown location, raising serious concerns that he has been again taken to solitary confinement, where he is at heightened risk of torture and other ill-treatment, including through the denial of adequate health care. Informed sources have told Amnesty International that prior to their enforced disappearance on or around 29 April, Mohammad Ali Amouri and Mokhtar Alboshkeh had been repeatedly subjected to harassment and physical assault by other prisoners for their human rights activities as well as their secular beliefs, and that these abuses are believed to have been instigated by prison and prosecution officials at Sheiban prison. Amnesty International had previously documented how prison authorities denied Mokhtar Alboshkeh health care, including for a jaw infection. Amnesty International renews its calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Mohammad Ali Amouri and Mokhtar Alboskheh, who have been imprisoned since 2011 and are serving a life sentence imposed solely for their peaceful work with a now disbanded cultural rights group called Al-Hiwar (meaning “Dialogue” in Arabic). Their activities included promoting Arabic culture and identity through poetry events, language classes and reading sessions, voicing demands for newspapers in the Arabic language, and conducting community education to reform traditional practices among Arab clans which are harmful toward women and girls. Amnesty International also reminds the Iranian authorities that older persons, such as Ghassem Sanjeri, are at heightened risk of severe illness or death if they contract COVID-19, and therefore they should be urgently released. Pending their release, they must be transferred out of solitary confinement and provided with adequate health care, including transfer to outside facilities for treatment unavailable in prison. A prompt, thorough, independent and impartial investigation must also be conducted into allegations that they had been subjected to torture and other ill-treatment and those responsible must be held accountable in fair trials.

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