Iranian Resistance calls for the immediate release of ailing political prisoner Alireza Golipour

Regime’s Judiciary has condemned Mr. Golipour to 39 years in prison

The Iranian regime’s judiciary has condemned Mr. Alireza Golipour, a 30-year-old political prisoner, to 39 years in prison for insulting the regime’s supreme leader, supporting the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and bogus charges of espionage.

He was a communications student and employee of the Ministry of Communications who was arrested during the course of the 2009 uprising. He was arrested again in October 2012. Following months of torture and solitary confinement, the regime transferred him to the ordinary prisoners’ ward of Evin Prison where he has been harassed by the regime’s criminal gangs.

Despite suffering from a cancer tumor, acute lung infection, cardiac problems and severe bleeding in the nose, and despite physicians testifying of his “inability to tolerate the punishment,” Mr. Golipour is deprived of necessary medical care and is in dire physical condition. Tormenting political prisoners to death is a well-known method employed by this regime.

The Iranian Resistance calls on international human rights defenders, particularly the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel and inhumane punishments, the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran to condemn this cruel verdict and to take immediate measures for Mr. Golipour’s unconditional release.