The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement on January 16, 2024, regarding the inhumane situation of Iranian political prisoner Ebrahim Khalil Sadiqi, aged 65.
In a section of the statement, it was mentioned that he is suffering from severe diabetes and has been on a hunger strike for the past two weeks, putting his health and life in danger.
The full text of the statement is as follows:
The Iranian Resistance, through the United Nations Human Rights Council and its Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, as well as international human rights defenders, demands urgent action for the immediate release of political prisoners Ebrahim Khalil Sadiqi Hamedani, 65 years old, in Khoy Prison, and his son Parsa Sadiqi in Naqadeh Prison, both on a hunger strike for the past two weeks.
Ebrahim’s health, who is suffering from severe diabetes, is at risk. In the summer of 2023, due to the intensity of diabetes, his toe was amputated. Instead of addressing Ebrahim’s demands and providing medical care, the regime’s criminal elements transferred him to solitary confinement.
Salar Sadiqi, also on a hunger strike simultaneously with his father, was transferred to Naqadeh Prison as a revengeful act on January 16, in lieu of being transferred to his father.
Ebrahim Khalil Sadiqi, along with his two children Salar and Maryam, was arrested in Urmia in March 2019. After two months of torture and interrogation in Urmia Intelligence Detention Center, they were transferred to the central prison of the city. Maryam was released from prison on heavy bail, but Ebrahim and Salar were sentenced to 19 years in prison in the mullahs’ regime court on charges of “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran and propaganda against the system,” and “filming military centers.” They were also fined 2.5 trillion Rials in cash. Prior to this, in 2005, Ebrahim had been arrested and spent two years in prison for supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI/MEK).
These two political prisoners have repeatedly gone on hunger strikes in protest of prison conditions and medical neglect in recent years. They have demanded to be held in the same prison where each time they have been faced with false promises, indifference, or suppressive actions. The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran had previously called on international authorities in its statements on April 23, 2018, October 3, 2019, and January 10, 2022, regarding the arrest and conviction of these two prisoners and their hunger strikes, urging immediate action for their release.
