Farhad Meysami Transferred to Hospital on Sixteenth Day of Hunger Strike
The lawyer of Farhad Meysami announced that this political prisoner, who has been on a hunger strike for more than two weeks in protest against the possible execution of Ahmadreza Jalali, a dual-national imprisoned researcher, was transferred to a hospital due to deterioration of his physical condition.
Mohammad Ghaeini, on the sixteenth day of Meysami’s hunger strike on Saturday, May 20, wrote in a tweet: “My client’s life is in danger.”
Farhad Meysami, who began a dry hunger strike in protest against the possible execution of Ahmadreza Jalali’s death sentence, has refused to receive intravenous fluids in the hospital.
Meysami previously, by releasing a letter from inside Rajaei Shahr Prison, called on all human rights activists and organizations to pay attention to Ahmadreza Jalali’s situation and said: “He is one of the most defenseless people on Earth these days. Do not let Jalali be executed.”
Ahmadreza Jalali is a physician and researcher who traveled to Iran to participate in a crisis management workshop and was arrested in May 2016. Amnesty International reported that Jalali, after 9 months in prison, including three months in solitary confinement, was convicted of espionage in the Revolutionary Court without a lawyer present, and was later sentenced to death.
Zabihollah Khadiyan, the spokesperson of the Judicial Authority, announced on Tuesday, May 9, that Ahmadreza Jalali’s death sentence is final and “the judicial system will act according to the issued verdict.”
Besides Farhad Meysami, Zarathushtra Ahmadi Ragheb, an imprisoned civil activist, also went on a hunger strike in protest against Jalali’s death sentence.
Source: Voice of America
