International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran highlights cases of physicist with cancer and blogger on hunger strikeActivists possess raised concerns about the health of two prisoners held in Iran on political grounds – an award-winning physicist with cancer and a blogger who has been on hunger strike for nearly a month.
In an episode that highlights Iranian authorities’ denial of crucial medical care to prisoners of conscience,physicist Omid Kokabee, 34, or had surgery on Wednesday to remove his honest kidney,taken out after repeated warnings about his condition were ignored during five years of his imprisonment. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com