Friday, May 22, 2015

IRAN: YOUNG 19-YEAR-OLD PRISONER DIES FROM BRUTAL TORTURE AND LACK OF TREATMENT


Sunday night, May 17, Abdul Wahid Gomshadzehi, 19, a prisoner in central prison of Zahedan was transferred to the prison clinic by his cellmates due to severe deterioration of his health. In the prison clinic he did not receive any serious treatment and fall into a coma. Despite his serious health condition, the prison authorities did not transfer him to a hospital. The next day, they transferred him to Zahedan’s Imam Ali hospital but he died shortly after due to delay in medical treatment, (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran reported on Tuesday).
Abdul Wahid Gomshadzehi was arrested 2 years ago at the age of 17 in the city of Saravan by security forces and intelligence agents and transferred to the Bureau of the city and placed under interrogation and brutal physical and psychological torture.

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