HRANA News Agency – Anwar Lajevard, political prisoner in Salmas, passed away due to cardiac arrest and the delay in transferring to hospital.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mr. Anwar Lajevard, 45, from the village of Broshkhoran of Salmas city, died due to cardiac arrest in Tabriz hospital on Thursday 18^th June.
Behnam Lajevard, his son, in an interview told HRANA’s reporter: “My father was detained about nine months ago to serve his imprisonment and was transferred to the prison of Salmas. On Tuesday, suddenly his condition deteriorated and he passed out, and prison officials thought that it is not serious and he will be fine, and after 2-3 hours when he was still unconscious, they accepted to take him to a hospital, so, first they took him to Khoy hospital and he was still alive and then he was taken to Tabriz hospital and after 2 day he passed away.”
Behnam Lajevard says his father was a worker and apolitical and was released on bail after two months interrogation and solitary confinement in his first arrest. The preliminary court had issued a sentence of four-year imprisonment that was reduced on the appeal court to one year, and by including his detention time, he was spending the last days of his sentence in Salmas prison.
It is to say that his son has announced his father’s allegation was cooperation with the Kurdish opposition parties.