Over 203,000 people have died of the Covid-19 in 478 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Sunday January 17.

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“Despite growing concern of physicians over the possibility of her becoming paralyzed, no decision has been taken for starting medical treatment of this prisoner,” said lawyer Mostafa Nili about the situation of political prisoner Raheleh Ahmadi. She must be urgently granted medical leave, but nothing as such has happened, yet.” Raheleh Ahmadi suffered a nervous shock after her daughter, Saba Kord Afshari, was abruptly relocated to the notorious Qarchak Prison. She had mobility problems and was sent to hospital twice, including on January 5, 2021, when she was sent to Tajrish Hospital. Specialist physicians say she could be paralyzed. No decision has been taken on her treatment while the decision is an emergency. Intelligence agents arrested Mrs. Raheleh Ahmadi at her home on July 10, 2019 and taken to Qarchak Prison. She was temporarily released 4 days later on a bail of 700 million Tomans, until her prosecution was finalized. Subsequently, she received a prison sentence of 2 years and 7 months. On February 1, 2020, she was summoned and taken to the women’s ward of Evin to serve her sentence. https://tinyurl.com/y4n2sz5k

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Detainee nurse Bahareh Soleimani, 43 years old and a resident of Tehran-Iran, has been transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison after completion of her interrogations. Intelligence Ministry forces arrested Bahareh Soleimani on October 16, 2020, and detained her in solitary confinement in the IRGC Intelligence Ward 2A in Evin Prison. Ms. Soleimani suffers from lung complications due to infection with COVID-19 since she had been attending to COVID patients since the outbreak. She needs urgent medical attendance and treatment. The family of this detained nurse are worried about fabrication of charges against her. She has been deprived of having access to her lawyer since being apprehended. Intelligence Ministry forces ransacked her family’s house and her own house in Tehran. During the inspections they confiscated her personal belongings such as her computer, cellphone, books, CDs and floppy disks. Ms. Soleimani’s family referred to the Evin Courthouse on October 18, 2021, and inquired about her. But they were told that their daughter is being held in a high security section and in solitary confinement. They could only visit her after her status is determined.

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Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi, Golorkh Iraee's husband, who is detained in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, sent out an open letter on January 13. In part of this letter, he said: “Last week, my mother-in-law suffered a stroke and was hospitalized after she learned about the beating of her daughter with batons and stun guns. The question is how much maneuvering power does an interrogator enjoy under the Islamic Republic’s Judiciary? Does he have the power to threaten and harass the family of a prisoner? Intimidation and harassment of the families of political prisoners has become a routing practice for the Islamic Republic in recent decades. It seems that the Judiciary’s structure, the torture methods have returned to those of the 1980s, and are widely practiced with special cruelty.” It's beem more than a month since the forcible transfer of political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee to Ward 2A of Evin Prison. There is still no information available on her conditions. Earlier, after repeated referrals by the Iraee family to the Evin Courthouse, Amin Vaziri, supervising the conditions of political prisoners, told them: “The riot in Qarchak had been organized by Golrokh Iraee and whatever happens to her, she deserves it.” He added, “For the time being, you should not be waiting for your daughter.”  https://tinyurl.com/y3xppll5

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Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari suspected of cancer, is deprived of medical care in Prison of Tabriz, in Iran. Massoumeh's family have been following up on her treatment and medical tests and have accepted to pay for her treatment, but prison authorities have prevented her from doing her ultrasound test and overlooked her visits to the prison dispensary requesting dispatch to civic medical centers. Last October, Massoumeh Senobari had contracted the Coronavirus but was deprived of medical treatment and proper food. Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari, born in 1988, is sentenced to a total of eight years in prison. One year for “propaganda against the state,” five years for alleged “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,” and two years for “insulting Khamenei.” https://tinyurl.com/y4j5lcu9

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The clerical regime’s security and intelligence forces arrested a number of activists such as Darya Talebani and Azimeh Nassri on Jan. 9 and summoned, Haleh Safarzadeh and her husband, Alireza Saghafi, to the courthouse of Karaj to serve their one-year sentences. The Appeals Court of Tehran Province upheld a 2-year sentence for Raha Asgarizadeh, journalist, photographer and women’s rights activist, on January 7 and at the same time, Zahra Nazouri, whose husband is detained as a political prisoner in Evin Prison, was sentenced to one year in prison by the Revision Court of Isfahan Province. Mrs. Nazouri is charged with “propaganda against the state.” In another news, Afsaneh Azimzadeh, a children’s rights activist, was arrested on December 14, 2020, and has been detained since without standing a trial in the IRGC detention center, Ward 2A of Evin Prison. Ms. Azimzadeh was arrested in Tehran’s Milad Hospital when she was following up on the heart problem of her mother. https://tinyurl.com/yxmcqgk4

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Nurses of Milad Hospital in Tehran-Iran held a protest in front of the hospital’s entrance, demanding pay raise and payment of their salaries during the pandemic, reported state-run ILNA news agency January 12. Nurses of Milad Hospital who participated in this protest said: Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have not received our fees for fighting the Coronavirus. We did not have a salary raise in recent months, either. This is despite the fact that our job has become difficult and hazardous after admission of patients infected with the Coronavirus. The protesting nurses were accompanied by a group of the hospital’s staff. Their demands included a 50% raise in their salaries, payment of fees for fighting the Coronavirus, payment of their past-due salaries, job security, official contracts, and attending to their demands. https://tinyurl.com/yxbzjh6t