Representatives of Ayatollah Kazemeini Borujerdi wrote a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General seeking urgent attention to his status in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
Mr. Kazemeini Borujerdi’s is a political prisoner and cleric opposing the religious dictatorship ruling Iran and he has been behind bars since October 2006.
The text of this letter reads:
His Excellency Dr. Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General
His Excellency Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran
Human rights advocates and organizations
Mr. Seyed Hossein Kazemeini Borujerdi, a 57-year-old religious theoretician who has been in prison for nearly a decade since October 2006 under continuing tortures, is now suffering from various illnesses and his life is in grave danger. He is in dire need of a physician, medicine and medical care.
In addition to his previous illnesses, since 20 January 2016 to this day it has been over two weeks that Mr. Borujerdi has seen his illnesses intensify. However, to this day he has not received any medical care, medicine or treatment. According to reports received from inside prison and remarks made by his family members, recently Mr. Borujerdi has for unknown reasons been continuously suffering from dizziness, severe vomiting and fainting on various occasions.
Officials of the special clerics court’s intelligence branch are preventing his transfer to a hospital outside of the prison to allow physicians identify his illness and place him under medical care.
In such critical conditions, we the representatives of Mr. Kazemeini Borujerdi, would like to inform you that the health conditions of this prisoner of conscience is currently very vague. This represents a violation of Iran’s international obligations in human rights due to not providing adequate medical care for this individual. It is worth noting that this trend is motivated and deliberately imposed on this ill prisoner, and considered a type of white torture that to this day has led to the death of dozens of inmates in prisons across Iran.
Therefore, we are urgently asking you as the highest officials in human rights, and all awaken consciences to play special attention to the medical care and health of this prisoner of conscience, and finally provide for his transfer to an equipped hospital after ten years.
Representatives of Mr. Kazemeini Borujerdi
February 2, 2016
