Yaghob Maleki on the Verge of Complete Blindness

HRANA News Agency – Yaghob Maleki, political prisoner in ward 7 of Evin prison, who was a pilot during the war time, is on the verge of complete blindness due to lack of medical care.
According to the report of the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), he is are facing ignorance by the prison authorities, the prison infirmary and prison overseer judge. Yaghob Maleki, one of the pilots during eight years of war between Iran and Iraq is on the verge of complete blindness due to lack of medical care.
Mr. Maleki, in term of vision, has got an unknown disease that virtually is in progress to make him completely blind. His requests of being sent to the specialized treatment centers outside the prison, has not been agreed with yet.
It should be noted, along with Yaghob Maleki, other prisoners, including Morteza Rahimi Taefeh, Jafar Shakeri, Behzad Mirzai, Mostafa Rahimi Basiri, Omid Shahmorady, Ali Alayi, Kamal Forooqi, Gholamreza Hosseini, and Ali Goli Pour are held in a bad condition in Hall 12 of ward 7, while being deprived of medical care in the basement with no fresh air and sunshine.
Contamination of drinking water and bathing water is so intense that the majority of prisoners have got kidney pain or skin problems. Almost all medical services provided to inmates are on prisoners’ costs, and the institution of prisons and especially the prison infirmary do nothing for treatment of patients and all of them are as a pressure on prisoners. Now, in Evin prison and quarantine ward, where the security and political prisoners are held, over a dozen people have severe diseases, who effectively have been denied access to adequate medical facilities. Omid Kokabee was held in the same ward and same hall when after successive aches for years, he was sent to the hospital and one of his kidneys was removed.
Earlier, HRANA had published a list of 55 political-security prisoners in Evin prison, with charges such as “communication with enemy governments” or “espionage”, who were detained or were sentenced.

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