A source familiar with the situation of Mojtaba Dadashi, a student sentenced to three years in prison and currently in Sabzevar Prison, told the Dayran Human Rights Campaign that he has been suffering from a respiratory infection since April 20th and that despite his requests to be transferred to a hospital outside the prison, this has been denied. According to this source, the student prisoner has been on a hunger strike in Sabzevar Prison since April 20th in protest of the authorities’ disregard for his health and failure to send him to the hospital.
After being sentenced to three years in prison by the Revolutionary Court, Mojtaba Dadashi did not appeal due to the unfair process of Iranian courts. His sentence was confirmed in full by the Court of Appeals, and ten days after his sentence was confirmed, on April 14, 2019, he was transferred to Sabzevar Prison to serve it. According to an informed source, he is being held in an unsanitary cell with high-risk prisoners.
According to the source , " Not only did the medical treatments not help, but the condition worsened, and his eyes turned yellow two days ago. He had no history of respiratory infections and it seems that he contracted the infection due to the dirty and polluted environment of the prison. "
The source said: "Mojtaba has been on a hunger strike in prison since the 2nd of Ardabi-e-Hasht due to his condition and the lack of attention from prison officials to transfer him to the hospital."
The source said : " Mujtaba is in a ward with high-risk prisoners. Basically, Sabzevar Prison does not have a separation of criminal and political prisoners. After his transfer to the prison, he had requested to be transferred to another ward, which the Sabzevar prosecutor also agreed to, and he was transferred to the Dar al-Quran ward of the prison. It is similar to the Husseiniyeh in the prison, which is clean, but after a few days he was transferred to another ward, which, according to Mojtaba, is not hygienic at all. "
Mojtaba Dadashi, born in 1995, a final-semester student in the political science department at Hakim Sabzevari University in Sabzevar, was charged with three charges and ultimately sentenced to three years in prison and 74 lashes in February 2018 for posting a video on social media.
The student was charged with two charges of “ insulting the leadership ” and “ propaganda against the system ” in the Sabzevar Revolutionary Court, and also with the charge of “ insulting the heads of the branches ” in the Sabzevar Criminal Court. Both of these trials were held in private by Judge Mohammad Gholami on the same day ( March 15, 2018 ) and in one session. According to the verdict he received on April 4, he was sentenced to two years in prison for the charge of insulting the leadership, one year in prison for the charge of propaganda against the system, and 74 lashes for the charge of insulting the heads of the three branches.
A few days later, on April 14, Mojbati Dadashi was summoned to the Sentence Execution Department to execute his sentence, and from there he was transferred to Sabzevar Prison, where he remains to this day.
On February 5, 2018, in a several-minute video posted on his Twitter page, Mojtaba Dadashi, after introducing himself as “ a person protesting against the existing oppression and oppression ,” mentioned the Iranian government’s response to workers and women with batons. He said, “This system is for a minority that has been sucking the blood of this country for forty years. This system is for the aghazadehs, not for you and me.. ”
An informed source had previously told the campaign about the manner of his arrest : “ Mujtaba published this video on February 15, and one day after the February 12 march, a summons was sent to him by the Third Branch of the Sabzevar Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office with a fabricated complaint from Sabzevar, requiring him to present himself to the prosecutor’s office. The next day, on February 14, Mojtaba went to the prosecutor’s office, but was arrested there and sent to Sabzevar Prison. He immediately went on a hunger strike to protest the manner of his arrest and the fact that he had not committed a crime. Mojtaba was released four days later on bail of 200 million Tomans. ”
This source had said about Mr. Dadashi's other activities before his arrest: " Mujtaba only occasionally wrote his critical opinions about the political and social situation of society on Twitter and his Telegram channel. Once in January 2017, during the popular protests, when Alam al-Huda, the Friday prayer imam of Mashhad, went to Sabzevar University to give a speech, he had announced his protest in this speech. Pieces of his criticism in Alam al-Huda's speech were also published on websites. But apart from these, he has had no other activities ."
After his sentence was announced, Mojtaba Dadashi posted a video on his Twitter account describing his sentence as cruel. In the video, he said: “I was tried on irrelevant charges for criticizing reformist and fundamentalist officials of the regime and the Supreme Leader himself, and now I have been sentenced to three years in prison and 74 lashes in the most cruel way possible.” He continued: “While Mr. Khamenei said in Mashhad on April 1, 2018 that the opponents of the government are free and that no one is going to protest against them, I was treated in the worst possible way.”
Source: Human Rights Campaign
