The regime’s prison and judicial officials are refusing to grant leave to epileptic prisoner Rezvaneh Ahmad Khan Beigi, detained in the women’s ward of Evin Prison in Tehran.
Behfar Lalehzari, the husband of this political prisoner, said that judicial officials did not agree to her request for leave. He added that he provides his wife with epilepsy treatment almost every week with great difficulty and delivers it to prison officials, but often some of the drugs are lost along the way from the prison entrance to the clinic.
Regarding the refusal to grant prison leave to the epileptic prisoner Rezvaneh Ahmad Khan Beigi, Behfar Lalehzari said that the authorities are literally putting a price on people’s lives. Judicial officials have announced that no leave would be granted for security offenders with prison sentences of more than five years. This is in the context of the fact that in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, people have been infected with coronavirus and the lives of women political prisoners are in danger.
Rezvaneh Ahmad Khan Beigi, born in 1990, went on a hunger strike on Monday, March 16, 2019 to protest the prison authorities’ refusal to grant her leave from prison.
Rezvaneh was sentenced to six years in prison in February 2020 in addition to her previous sentences. She had previously been sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court to four years and five months in prison. After her arrest on November 17, 2019, Rezvaneh was first interrogated in Ward A2 of Evin Prison and then transferred to the Women’s Ward of Evin Prison.
Atena Daemi is another prisoner in the women’s ward of Evin Prison who suffers from an illness and is deprived of leave. During her years in captivity, the female political prisoner suffered from a number of illnesses, including numbness in her hands and feet, and internal infections such as kidney infections. However, she was not granted leave despite the coronavirus prevalence in Evin Prison.
