Kalam: The Health Condition of Reza Shahabi in Prison is Deteriorating

As reports emerge about the 'deteriorating health' of Reza Shahabi, a jailed labor activist who has been on hunger strike for 17 days, Ali Motahari has reported on the 'poor' health condition of Mehdi Khazali due to his hunger strike and has implicitly called his detention 'illegal'. According to the website Kalam, Reza Shahabi's health, while on hunger strike, is 'deteriorating'. Shahabi has been sentenced to another year in prison in a new case that the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran Bus Company has labeled as 'fabrication'. Additionally, the prosecutor's office has counted five months of the time Shahabi was on medical leave, confirmed by forensic medicine, as 'absence'. Under pressure from the prosecutor's office to return to prison, Shahabi presented himself to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj on August 9. Reports indicate that judicial authorities have repeatedly pressured this labor activist to return to prison over the past year. Shahabi was arrested by security forces on June 12, 2010, and after 19 months in solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin Prison, he was sentenced by the Islamic Revolutionary Court to six years in prison, five years of deprivation from union activities, and a fine of 7.5 million tomans. According to the Syndicate of Workers of the Tehran Bus Company and suburbs, 'Reza Shahabi suffered serious injuries to his neck and back due to violence from security forces during his arrest and also from long and exhausting interrogations'. Ali Motahari: Khazali's detention seems illegal. In recent weeks, several journalists, including Sasan Aghaei and Yaghma Fakhshami, have been arrested, and political activist Mehdi Khazali was also detained on Saturday evening, August 12. He announced that he would go on a hunger strike from the moment of his arrest. Meanwhile, Ali Motahari, the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, on Saturday, September 4, stated in a letter to the head of the judiciary that 'according to reports received' from Evin Prison, Mehdi Khazali's health condition is 'very poor due to the hunger strike'. While he stated that he does not confirm some of Khazali's claims, he also declared that 'his re-arrest as punishment while he has served his six-year sentence and no new case has been sent to court for him seems illegal'. Mr. Motahari urged the head of the judiciary to 'forgive' Khazali for his 'insults' and to issue his release order 'before a catastrophe occurs'. The Deputy Speaker emphasized: 'Here, the supervising prosecutor and the execution judge have direct responsibility, considering that there is no punitive sentence'. Mehdi Khazali has been arrested several times in recent years and has gone on hunger strikes during his detentions. On the other hand, reports indicate that the hunger strike of several political and ideological prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj continues in protest against the violation of their rights, including 'denial of daily outdoor exercise', 'poor ventilation', 'presence of surveillance cameras', and 'incomplete return of personal belongings'. The hunger strike of some of these political and ideological prisoners began on August 8, and others started a few days later after a sudden transfer of a group of them to a new ward without transferring their personal belongings. Meanwhile, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported on Wednesday, September 1, that the families of these prisoners had gone to the prosecutor's office to follow up on their status, where they faced 'insulting and violent' treatment from the prosecutor's office security. Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the Tehran prosecutor, emphasized on Wednesday, September 1, that the judiciary would not 'surrender' to the hunger strikes of prisoners and that 'these actions are failed matters'. In recent years, many political prisoners, including Hadi Saber and Akbar Mohammadi, have died due to lack of medical attention during hunger strikes. Long-term hunger strikes have also negatively impacted the physical condition of some political prisoners. Meanwhile, Hossein Taj, the lawyer of Ehsan Mazandarani, stated on Saturday that this imprisoned journalist's stomach 'rejects anything other than water'. Previously, Malihe Hosseini, the wife of Ehsan Mazandarani, tweeted about her husband's condition, stating that 'for six days, his stomach has accepted nothing but water, and the prosecutor does not even allow medical leave'. The wife of Ehsan Mazandarani also reported that this imprisoned journalist was 'semi-conscious with blood pressure below 8, sugar below 40, and heart rate 130' and had been transferred to the medical unit of Evin Prison twice, but the doctor only monitored his level of consciousness and stated that he could not take any action for treatment. Ehsan Mazandarani, a jailed journalist, has previously gone on hunger strikes in protest against issues such as illegal detention and mistreatment by prison guards. Political prisoners in Iran have repeatedly gone on hunger strikes in protest against the violation of their rights, including the failure to separate prisoners based on charges, deprivation of phone contact with family, poor detention conditions, and mistreatment and beatings by guards. In this context, 'the violent treatment of the prosecutor's office security' with the families of the striking prisoners. Tehran prosecutor: We will not surrender to the hunger strikes of prisoners. 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