Authorities prevent her hospitalization and treatment outside prison
Authorities prevent her hospitalization and treatment outside prisonCall for urgent action for the release of Fatemeh Mosanna and for an international fact-finding mission to visit prisons, especially women’s prisons in Iran
The health of political prisoner Fatemeh Mosanna, imprisoned for five and a half years, has deteriorated, but authorities in Evin prison are preventing her provisional release for treatment and hospitalization. She suffers from chronic colitis and severe migraines. She has also suffered from severe intestinal bleeding since July 2020 and doctors said she was physically unable to endure the detention.
On August 19, 2020, Ms. Mosanna was unconscious due to a hemorrhage. Authorities were forced to send her to Taleghani Hospital, but throughout her hospital stay her hands and feet were chained to her bed. On August 26, she was returned to prison despite the doctor’s disagreement, and although her test results were still missing and she had not completed her treatment. Her health deteriorated again on September 7, 2020. This time she was sent to the hospital for endoscopy and colonoscopy, but was returned to prison before the tests were completed.
In December 2020, a doctor at Taleghani Hospital reaffirmed that Fatemeh was physically unable to endure the detention. He had requested a forensic examination, but Amin Vaziri, the prosecutor of Evin, refused.
Fatemeh is the sister of Ali, Mustafa and Morteza Mosanna, three Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK / PMOI) members, executed by the mullahs’ regime in 1981 and 1982. She was arrested in January 2013 with her husband Hassan Sadeghi and their two children in their home at a funeral reception for the death of Gholam-Hossein Sadeghi, Hassan’s father. Mr. Sadeghi, a MEK member, had just died at Camp Liberty in Iraq due to a medical siege imposed by the Iranian regime mercenaries.
They were then released on bail. Subsequently, Fatemeh and her husband were each sentenced to 15 years in prison for “Moharebeh (waging war on God) for supporting the MEK,” and all of their property was confiscated. They were returned to prison to serve their sentence in October 2015.
The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN Human Rights Council and the UN High Commissioner as well as other human rights organizations to the plight of Fatemeh Mosanna, and urges their urgent action to ensure her release from the prison. It once again reiterates on the need to send a fact-finding mission to inspect prisons in Iran and meet with prisoners, especially political prisoners and female prisoners.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
January 30, 2021
