{"id":15660,"date":"2014-01-02T16:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T16:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/issues\/human-rights\/15660-iran-political-prisoners-denied-medical-treatment"},"modified":"2023-01-15T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T16:37:26","slug":"iran-political-prisoners-denied-medical-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/human-rights\/iran-political-prisoners-denied-medical-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: Political prisoners denied medical treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"prison-200\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-41293\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/01\/prison-200.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" style=\"float: left;margin: 5px\" \/>Prison officials in Zahedan Central Prison have deprived political prisoner Iraj Mohammadi of receiving his medicine.<\/p>\n<p>This prisoner is suffering from nervous illnesses after enduring brutal torture by the Iranian regime&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence interrogators in a secret prison.<\/p>\n<p>Another political prisoner in Evin Prison was also banned from being transferred to a medical center following his refusal to wear prison clothes and being handcuffed.<\/p>\n<p>Saied Matin-pour, has been sentenced to 8 years with physical punishment on charges of having connections with foreigners and propaganda against the government.<\/p>\n<p>In Iran, political and conscience prisoners are forced to wear prison clothes and be handcuffed and chained while being transferred to a medical centers.<\/p>\n<p>This has however, raised strong complaints and objections of the prisoners, refusing to do so. 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