Political prisoner Nejat Anvar Hamidi has been incarcerated since March 2019 to serve her 15-year sentence in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. She has not had any day off, even for medical leave.
Ms. Anvar Hamidi suffers from Thyroid malfunction, high blood pressure, blood lipid, and chronic headache. She also suffers from cataracts and experienced eye bleeding due to a lack of medical attention.
Sepidar Prison authorities deprived her of receiving her medications. On January 15, 2022, the prison’s doctor told her, “You don’t need any operation until you go blind!”
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, she contracted the virus and was quarantined while deprived of medical care.
Political prisoner Nejat Anvar Hamidi is 67 and married with a daughter.
She was imprisoned for 28 months during the 1980s for supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main Iranian opposition force.
She and her husband and daughter were arrested for the second time in 2017. She was interrogated and sentenced to five years for “membership in dissident groups on the internet” and “propaganda against the state.”
In March 2019, she was called to serve her jail time in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz among ordinary prisoners violating the principle of separation of crimes.
Ms. Anvar Hamidi was later informed that she and her husband, Akbar Mohammadi, had been sentenced to another 15 years in prison for “membership in the PMOI/MEK” and “propaganda against the state” by the 4th Branch of the Justice Department of Ahvaz, while no new charges had been leveled against them.