Balochistan: Inmate dies in Dozzaap prison due to lack of medical care

Dozzaap (Zahedan): A Baloch inmate has died in Central Prison of Zahedan in Iranian occupied Balochistan (IOB) on Sunday 3rd May 2020 due to lack of medical attention.

Mehrdad Naroi 35 was held in Ward 8 of Zahedan Central Prison had diabetes, due to which one of his legs was amputated several years ago and about 20 days ago, his other leg was amputated.

After which he was brought back to prison, his wound was infected in prison, and prison officials refused to treat him until he died.

He was arrested and imprisoned for alleged possession of drugs.

Human rights and democracy activists in Iran condemn the lack of treatment of defenceless inmates in prisons that leads to their deaths.

The groups urged the UN to take action against the regime Ali Khamenei and raise the cases inhuman treatments of prisoners and crimes against humanity tat UN Human Rights Commission and Security Council.

Iran’s prison conditions are unbearable and Iranian forces are notorious for subjecting political prisoners’ to mental and physical torture.

On Friday Radio Farda reported that a prominent dissident attempted suicide in prison to protest the situation of political prisoners and possibly the harassment of his family by security and intelligence organs.

Nourizad who is a documentary filmmaker reportedly cut his wrist in prison but was rescued. His wife, Fatemeh Maleki told Radio Farda on May 2 that her husband’s lawyer visited him in prison and saw bandages on his hand and face.

He told the lawyer that his decision to commit suicide was not about himself but “for the sake of all political prisoners…to highlight the oppression they endure and pressures they are subjected to”.

On May 7 2020, the husband of a prominent Iranian lawyer in prison said the physical and mental condition of a British-Australian academic, Kylie Moore Gilbert, is not good and she “has attempted suicide three times so far” behind bars in the Islamic Republic.

“News received from Evin prison says that Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the Australian citizen, who is staying in the security ward of Evin prison, has so far attempted to kill herself three times”, Reza Khandan reported on his Facebook page.

The British-Australian academic Kylie Moore is held in isolation in Iran since September 2018.

Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of Centre for Human Rights in Iran @ICHRI tweeted on May 7, 2o2o as following:

“Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has reportedly attempted suicide 3 times in the tiny cell she’s been confined to by #Iran’s Revolutionary Guards for nearly two years. Her overdue release is a matter of life and death @ScottMorrisonMP @MarisePayne”