Amnesty International: Iran’s authorities are callously
toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political
prisoners by denying them adequate medical care, putting them at grave
risk of death, permanent disability or other irreversible damage to
their health, according to a new report by Amnesty International
published today.
The report, Health taken hostage: Cruel denial of
medical care in Iran’s prisons, provides a grim snapshot of health care
in the country’s prisons. It presents strong evidence that the
judiciary, in particular the Office of the Prosecutor, and prison
administrations deliberately prevent access to adequate medical care, in
many cases as an intentional act of cruelty intended to intimidate,
punish or humiliate political prisoners, or to extract forced
“confessions” or statements of “repentance” from them.
