Narges Mohammadi Denied Essential Medication in Qarchak Prison

According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, prominent human rights defender, Narges Mohammadi is being denied medical care and essential medication in Qarchak Prison.

On June 26, her husband, Taghi Rahman tweeted that the prison security were not giving her the lung, heart and breathing medication her family had taken for her. The shots for her lungs which are essential, must be injected as soon as possible, he wrote.

Speaking to Iran Human Rights, he said: “We want her to be at least transferred to Evin Prison. Such pressures are to get rid of political prisoners, because killing someone this way is easier than executing them.”

Narges Mohammadi who was released from prison after serving a five year sentence in October 2020, was sentenced to a further 30 months’ imprisonment and 80 lashes for her sit-in protest in Evin Prison against the brutal crackdown on the November 2019 nationwide protests and letters she wrote from prison, which was upheld in September of that year. Vowing to defy the implementation, Narges documented her five arrests since release, which were all accompanied by violence and force.

She was last arrested on 16 November 2021 at the memorial service of Ebrahim Ketabdar who was killed during the November 2019 protests. She was informed that her 30-month-sentence was being enforced while in solitary confinement in Evin Prison the next day.

On 24 January 2022, her husband tweeted that Narges was sentenced to eight years imprisonment and 70 lashes in a trial that only lasted for five minutes. She was transferred to Qarchak Prison on January 19 and hospitalised less than a month later on February 17. In February 2022, she underwent an angioplasty procedure in hospital but was returned to Qarchak prison the next day. She was released on a medical furlough on February 22 after spending 100 days behind bars.

Narges was held in solitary confinement for 64 days in her most recent detention in Evin Prison and was denied access to her lawyer throughout her detention. Prior to her arrest, she had filed a complaint about her previous unlawful solitary confinement along with other civil activists.