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Clashes in Chabahar Prison Following Protest Over Food Ration Cuts; More Than Ten Prisoners Injured

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HRANA – On Wednesday, March 18, clashes broke out in Chabahar Prison after inmates protested the cut in food rations and poor detention conditions. The confrontation between prisoners and special forces resulted in more than ten inmates being injured.

Based on the report by Haal Vsh, the protest began on the evening of Tuesday, March 17, following several days of food ration cuts. During the protest, a number of prisoners gathered in the prison yard and refused to return to their wards, objecting to detention conditions, lack of facilities, and the unsafe environment caused by recent developments in Chabahar. The inmates demanded transfer to prisons with safer conditions or clarification of their legal status.

As the gathering continued, special forces were deployed inside the prison and clashed with the protesting inmates. Reports indicate that these forces opened direct fire.

Following the clashes, more than ten prisoners were injured and transferred to Imam Ali Hospital in Chabahar for medical treatment.

Haal Vsh also reported that several prisoners lost their lives during the clashes. However, no further details, including the identities of the deceased or the exact number of fatalities, have been released.

Civil Activist Arasham Rezai On Hunger Strike, Refuses to Take Medicine

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Imprisoned civil activist Arasham (Mahmood) Rezai went on hunger strike and refused to take medicine in protest against the refusal of his request for medical furlough. He needs urgent treatment for a hiatal hernia, stomach infection and duodenal ulcer.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Rezai, a civil activist imprisoned in Rajai Shahr Prison, went on a hunger strike and refused to take his medicines.

On February 2, 2022, he was dispatched to the Hospital in Karaj City where he was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia, stomach infection and duodenal ulcer for which he needs treatment. Nonetheless, his request for a medical furlough has been rejected.

Moreover, he is suffering from damages to his left knee due to torture and being beaten by a shocker.

According to an informed source, prison officials will not dispatch him to a hospital for an MRI despite the prescription of a prison doctor.

Rezai was arrested on January 7 of 2019 by the regime’s intelligence and security forces. On November 13 of that year, he was released on bail for 2 billion Rial (approx. 8000 dollars).

On February 26, 2019, the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced Rezai, without informing the defendant’s attorney that the court session was taking place, to eight years and six months imprisonment on the charges of “propaganda against the regime”, “assembly and collusion against national security”, and “offensive statements against the supreme leader of Iran”. Grounded on Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, for the second charge, the severest punishment of 5 years was enforceable.

To serve his sentence, on October 18, 2020, he was arrested and transferred to a solitary confinement cell in Rajai Shahr Prison. Finally, he was relocated to a public section of this prison on December 19 2020.

On January 20 of this year, on new charges, the revolutionary court sentenced him to an additional 15 months imprisonment (which was later reduced to 11 months on appeal) and 4 months penal labour.