Behnam Mahjoubi's wife: She has been threatened with electric shock

Behnam Mahjoubi, a Gonabadi dervish who was arrested during the Golestan 7th incident, has been forcibly transferred from Evin to Razi Psychiatric Hospital. His wife says that her husband has been threatened with electric shocks if he does not break his strike.

Behnam Mahjoubi, a prisoner of conscience held in Evin, was transferred to the Aminabad Psychiatric Center on Sunday, October 26. He was taken to the hospital instead of the hospital under the pretext of treatment for seizures and paralysis of his left hand. They took him there. The human rights agency “HRANA” writes: “The doctors injected him with medicine without informing him of the treatment process.”

The prisoner of conscience suffers from panic disorder, and his wife has previously warned the prison health department about the interaction of the medication for this condition with sleeping pills. “They gave him 14 to 17 sleeping pills every night until suddenly half of his body stopped working,” Salehe Hosseini wrote in an open letter.

He says: "On Saturday, Behnam had a seizure because the prison did not provide him with his medication, fell down, and half of his body was paralyzed. They took him to the hospital and at first they said he would be sent to the neurology ward of Razi Hospital, but suddenly he announced that he was being kept in the Abu Rayhan ward of Aminabad Asylum."

Saleheh Hosseini asked Evin officials why they had not given her husband's medication: "... We prepared the medication ourselves every month, while it was your responsibility to prepare and provide his medication."

Behnam Mahjoubi's wife has warned that the prisoner of conscience' life is in danger and has appealed for help from anyone within earshot. "The judicial authorities have a responsibility to take Behnam to a forensic doctor to determine that he cannot bear imprisonment," she wrote on Twitter.

In another tweet, Saleheh Hosseini expressed concern about her husband's condition, reporting that he had been threatened with electric shock if he did not break his hunger strike.

Saleheh Hosseini wrote two weeks ago that the latest doctor's certificate emphasized that the prisoner could not bear the confinement: "Despite this, not only is he being held in confinement, but the prison guard always has an excuse for not delivering Behnam's medication."

Ebrahim Allahbakhshi, a Gonabadi dervish who was previously imprisoned, writes that Behnam Mahjoubi requested in a letter to the head of Aminabad Hospital that he be discharged with his own consent: "But in response, they told him that your case has nothing to do with us and that you are hospitalized here by order of the judge. Question: Who ordered Behnam to be given an injection? Behnam is on a hunger strike, his life is in danger."

Source: DW