"50%" of Mustafa Daneshjo's lungs, a prisoner named Dervish, are inoperable

The lawyer for "Mostafa Daneshjo", a lawyer and one of the imprisoned Gonabadi dervishes, says that based on medical tests, "50 percent" of Mr. Daneshjo's lungs have failed and he should be under the care of a specialist, but the authorities are preventing him from being sent to the hospital for treatment.

Ali Sharifzadeh, the lawyer for Mostafa Daneshjo, told VOA on Tuesday, February 2, that based on "medical records and documents available at the Evin Prison Health Center," his client is not in good physical condition and suffers from numerous illnesses that require treatment under the supervision of a specialist.

Ali Sharifzadeh told VOA: "We have sent letters to the Medical Commission and the head of political and security prisoners in Evin Prison several times, requesting that Mr. Daneshjoo be sent to medical centers, but we have not received a response so far."

Mustafa Daneshjoo was arrested in July 2018 by a warrant issued by the investigator of Branch 3 of the Security Court and sentenced to eight years in prison by Judge Moghiseh in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court on charges of gathering and colluding against national security, propaganda against the system, and spreading lies with the intention of disturbing public opinion.

According to Mr. Sharifzadeh, last week, following the exacerbation of Mostafa Daneshjou's digestive illness, prison officials sent him alone to the Evin Prison health center and, after injecting him with serum and an ampoule, returned him to the prison cells.

Earlier, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a note published in the USA Today newspaper in August of this year, referred to the repression of critics and protesters in Iran and said that hundreds of dervishes in Iran are still in prison for their beliefs, and a number of them have been killed by brutal security forces.

Source: Voice of America