"Vida Rabbani": What right does the judiciary have to violate the confidentiality between patient and doctor?

"Vida Rabbani" published a letter of protest from Evin Prison, asking what right the judiciary has to violate the confidentiality between patient and doctor.

Vida Rabbani, born in 1968, is an Iranian journalist and political activist who was sentenced to six years in prison on charges of "gathering and colluding against national security" and fifteen months in prison on charges of "propaganda against the system." She has been serving her sentence in Evin Prison since 2019.

Vida Rabbani reacted to the Judiciary News Agency's statement that Vida was using psychiatric drugs. She published a letter, reporting the lack of proper medical care for prisoners in Evin Prison and the indiscriminate distribution of sedatives, and wrote: "The psychiatric illnesses of people like me are the result of your detention, solitary confinement, and torture. By what right and with what attitude do the security establishment and the judiciary allow themselves to violate the confidentiality between patient and doctor, and what does a history of psychiatric illness have to do with headaches?"

Ms. Rabbani, while protesting the judiciary's statements about her history of mental illness, said: "When you said she had a history of mental illness, you also added that this history began in March 2019, after the bloody November and the threats from the IRGC's intelligence, after the plane crash and the Amir Kabir rally and the arrest of the Ministry of Intelligence. In four years, you have arrested me four times in my house, so that every time the doorbell rings, I jump. You have arrested me many times, you have broken down my door many times, and you have threatened me many times over the phone.

You have kept me in solitary confinement, in a detention center without any interrogation, for dozens of days, because you know that solitary confinement, uncertainty, ignorance, etc., is a damaging and at the same time invisible torture. For you, the detention center is a method of pressuring and torturing the accused, not when you kept me in detention center 209 for 40 days to conduct investigations, while I was not interrogated for a total of three hours. You did not even refuse to transfer me to a general ward until I went on a hunger strike. I am not ashamed to say that my psyche is damaged and that I take anxiety and depression medications, this is not shameful. That spirit and the machine that are programmed to inflict this damage on the psyche of their opponents should be ashamed that they are not doing it.”