HRANA News Agency – Maryam Akbari Monfared, political prisoner in women’s ward of Evin prison was transferred to the hospital due to her different diseases that she is suffering from.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ms. Akbari Monfared was transferred to the clinic of Dr. Nakhjavan, located in Motahri st. in Tehran for her thyroid disease and an ophthalmology clinic, located on Tehran-no zone, for her eyes disease.
According to HRANA’s sources, her family are trying to book an appointment from a rheumatology clinic as well.
Need to be mentioned while article number 134 of the Islamic penal code could be applied to this political prisoner, the security and judiciary authorities are preventing it, and right after the submission of the plea and defining the lawyer, branch number 38 of the supreme court confirmed her sentence.
Worth mentioning that under the applying of article 134, her sentence would be reduced to four years and she could be released immediately.
Her husband has stated that the parole could also be applied to her, but it is being prevented as well.
Previously he had told HRANA’s reporter that he put a one billion and five hundred million-Tomans-bail for more than two years in order to get the approval of furlough for one day, but during past 6 years she did not have even one day of furlough.
Akbari Monfared who was serving her sentence in Rajaei Shahr prison, has been transferred to Gharchak prison in Varamin along with 8 others. After she complained about the condition of prison and sent letters to great Ayatollahs, regime authorities and Ahmad Shaheed, the special rapporteur of UN, she was transferred to women’s ward of Evin prison and currently is being kept there.
Two brothers of Maryam Akbari Monfared were executed on charge of being in contact with MEK, in 1981 and 1984 by the revolutionary courts. Her younger brother and other sister were executed in summer of 1988. Akbari Monfared brought a quote from judge Salavati in her letter to Ahmad Shaheed, “you are serving on behalf of your siblings”.
