Political prisoner Raheleh Rahemipour, detained in the women’s ward of Evin prison, is deprived of proper medical care. She suffers from many illnesses and is detained despite the forensic doctor confirming that she cannot tolerate imprisonment.
The 72-year-old political prisoner is in prison for demanding answers on the forced disappearance of her brother and niece who were detained during the 1980s.
Her brother Hossein Rahemipour, a dentist, was arrested along with his pregnant wife in 1983. His daughter Golrou was born in Evin Prison.
When she was 15 days old, Golrou was separated from her mother for supposed medical care and was not returned to her. In April 1984, the authorities informed the Rahemipour family that Golrou had passed away, without showing them her death certificate or grave.
In September 1984, they informed the family by phone that Hossein Rahemipour was executed during the mass executions of political prisoners. But the regime never specified his place of burial.
The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has confirmed that Golrou Rahemipour and her father have been forcefully disappeared and has demanded accountability from the Iranian regime.
In late January, Mrs. Rahemipour was taken to the hospital due to her poor health. She was returned to prison two days later after undergoing a cardiac angiogram. She was taken to the prison clinic several times but did not receive any serious treatment.
Raheleh Rahemipour was initially arrested by security forces in Tehran on November 12, 2019, and was transferred to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Intelligence Detention Center known as Section 2A in Evin Prison. She was released after some time. The elderly political prisoner was sentenced to six years in prison and was detained in mid-November 2023, to serve her sentence in Evin Prison. She has been charged with “spreading propaganda against the states” and “assembly and collusion against national security”.
