Grieving mothers gather in front of the hospital where imprisoned dervish Behnam Mahjoubi is being treated.

Shortly after the release of videos of the mother of Behnam Mahjoubi, a Gonabadi dervish imprisoned in Iran, which Voice of America also previously released, some grieving mothers and those who have lost loved ones in recent years have appeared in front of the hospital.

Nahid Shirpisheh, the mother of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of those killed in the November 2019 protests, who is among these mothers, told Voice of America on Tuesday night after appearing in front of the hospital about Behnam Mahjoubi's latest condition: "I think he may be spending the last moments of his life. Now, with the machine, he is in a coma and very close to death, unfortunately."

Ms. Shirpisheh told VOA that the mother of this political prisoner, who is currently hospitalized in Loghman Hospital, has had difficulty meeting her son today.

In addition to Ms. Shirpisheh, Sakineh Ahmadi, the mother of Ebrahim Kebatdar, another person killed in the November 2019 protests, Shahnaz Akmalli, the mother of Mustafa Karim Beigi, one of the Green Movement's protest victims, and Akram Niqabi, the mother of Saeed Zeinali, who was arrested and disappeared in the University Quarter in 1999, were present on Tuesday, February 18, in front of the hospital where Behnam Mahjoubi, a prisoner, was hospitalized.

Source: Voice of America