Ayatollah Kazemeini Borujerdi
Tehran – Representatives of Ayatollah Kazemeini
Borujerdi, a political prisoner and cleric opposing the religious dictatorship
ruling Iran who has been behind bars since October 2006, wrote a letter to the
United Nations Secretary-General seeking urgent attention to Mr. Kazemeini
Borujerdi’s status in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
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. It is worth noting the prison clinic lacks the
adequate equipment and supplies to diagnose the illness of this prisoner of
conscience and other inmates. On the other hand, 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
Transcript to: Leader of the Islamic Republic of
Iran
Head of the Judiciary in the Islamic Republic of
Iran
Evin Prison officials
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