URGENT ACTION
Ailing TRADE UNIONIST STARTS HUNGER STRIKE
Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi, a prisoner of conscience serving a six-year jail sentence, has gone on hunger strike in protest at his transfer from Evin Prison in Tehran to Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj.
Reza Shahabi (also known as Reza Shahabi Zakaria) was transferred on 1 June from Section 350 of Evin Prison, in Tehran, to Raja’i Shahr Prison, in the city of Karaj, where political prisoners and convicted criminal offenders, including violent offenders, are frequently held together. In protest at his transfer, Reza Shahabi started a hunger strike the same day, demanding to be transferred back to Evin Prison.
Reza Shahabi’s health has been causing concern for some time. He is in urgent need of medical treatment, including surgery on his spine, which he cannot obtain inside the prison. He was apparently promised that he would receive the surgical treatment on 19 March. However, hours before when his surgery was scheduled, he was returned to prison and has not been transferred back to hospital since. The same situation happened on 15 December 2012, when he was forcibly returned to prison before he could be adequately examined by doctors, leading him to start a hunger strike. He stopped it on 7 January 2013, only after he was granted medical leave, which ended on 15 April 2013.
Hospital doctors have written, at least once, to the prison administration and the office of the Prosecutor of Tehran of their diagnosis that Reza Shahabi requires specialized medical care outside prison. They have emphasized that without this treatment he faces a real risk of suffering paralysis on the left side of his body.
Ailing TRADE UNIONIST STARTS HUNGER STRIKE
Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi, a prisoner of conscience serving a six-year jail sentence, has gone on hunger strike in protest at his transfer from Evin Prison in Tehran to Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj.
Reza Shahabi (also known as Reza Shahabi Zakaria) was transferred on 1 June from Section 350 of Evin Prison, in Tehran, to Raja’i Shahr Prison, in the city of Karaj, where political prisoners and convicted criminal offenders, including violent offenders, are frequently held together. In protest at his transfer, Reza Shahabi started a hunger strike the same day, demanding to be transferred back to Evin Prison.
Reza Shahabi’s health has been causing concern for some time. He is in urgent need of medical treatment, including surgery on his spine, which he cannot obtain inside the prison. He was apparently promised that he would receive the surgical treatment on 19 March. However, hours before when his surgery was scheduled, he was returned to prison and has not been transferred back to hospital since. The same situation happened on 15 December 2012, when he was forcibly returned to prison before he could be adequately examined by doctors, leading him to start a hunger strike. He stopped it on 7 January 2013, only after he was granted medical leave, which ended on 15 April 2013.
Hospital doctors have written, at least once, to the prison administration and the office of the Prosecutor of Tehran of their diagnosis that Reza Shahabi requires specialized medical care outside prison. They have emphasized that without this treatment he faces a real risk of suffering paralysis on the left side of his body.
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