Afshin Sohrabzadeh

After joining the Komala Group, he returned to the country. Upon identifying himself to the Revolutionary Guard, he was questioned for a few days and ultimately released with a letter of safe-conduct. He was later arrested by the Kamyaran Branch of the Intelligence Ministry

<coverage-outsourcing id='6826'> He was arrested by agents of the Kamyaran Intelligence Ministry offices on the road to Sanandaj. According to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran he had returned to Iran after being a member of the Komala Group for a few months. He was initially detained and interrogated by the IRGC's Intelligence Unit for a few days before being released with a letter of safe conduct. The Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran also reported that he suffered from a broken nose and ruptured hernia as a result of the torture he endured. He was later transferred to Rajaee Shahr Prison, where he was held for 20 days before being transferred to the Sanandaj Intelligence Ministry Office's lock-up. He was then transferred to Sanandaj Prison before being ultimately exiled to Minab Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5971'> According to a report by the Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran he had surgery done on his hernia in Sanandak Prison. This procedure was done to repair the injuries he sustained while being tortured by agents of the Kamyaran Intelligence Ministry Office. According to this report, the defendant used a catheter for nine months after the operation </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5968'> Prior to his sentence being upheld in the Supreme Court, he was transferred from Sanandaj Prison to exile in Minab Prison. His sentence was confirmed and relayed to him in Minab Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5975'> He was transferred from the Health Ward of Minab Prison to Quarantine Ward as a result of an altercation between him and prison guards </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5965'> The defendant attempted to commit suicide by eating the glass from a light bulb and slitting the veins on his wrists in protest of his exile and detainment conditions </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5960'> According to Asoy Rojhelat News, the defendant began a hunger strike following his being diagnosed with cancer and facing the lack of medical attention. A few days into his hunger strike he was transferred to Bandar Abbas Prison in order to be treated at Abolfazl Hospital in this city </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5973'> The Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran reported that the defendant was returned to Minab Prison without receiving treatment </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6814'> He began a hunger strike in support of Kobane </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5970'> According to a report by the Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran, Sanandaj Revolutionary Court set the bail for the defendant to be allowed medical leave from the prison at 120 million tomans. When the defendant's family procured this sum, the court increased the required amount to 220 million tomans. According to a report by HRANA his family ultimately gathered the higher sum, but his medical leave request was denied </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5966'> According to a report by the Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran Ali Moradi, one of the defendant's ward-mates, was beaten and transferred to solitary as a result of his protesting the lack of medical attention and transfer of the defendant </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5962'> He began a hunger strike in protest of not being transferred to hospital. The defendant was previously transferred to Minab Prison, where the medical staff had requested he be transferred to Bandar Abbas Hospital, which was better equiped. This request was rejected by the Prosecutor and the defendant was returned to prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5963'> He was transferred to solitary confinement 10 days into his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5969'> The Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran reported that he is not being allowed to leave prison to receive medical attention </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5979'> According to a report by HRANA despite the fact that his family had gathered the funds necessary as collateral to facilitate his leaving the prison to receive treatment, he was not allowed to do so in 2015 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5961'> He was transferred to Evin Prison after paying four million tomans to begin his treatment. After a few months he was transferred back to Minab Prison due to not being able to pay the hight cost of his treatment (70 million tomans). He was charged an additional 1.2 million tomans for this transfer. He has been transferred to Evin Prison twice </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5989'> He penned a letter to Ahmad Shaheed, requesting his help. The letter reads : > As much as I remember, prior to my arrest I was in good health. I was severely tortured by the Intelligence Ministry, resulting in a broken nose and a ruptured hernia as a result of repeated blows being struck...If I want to write down all the torture and distress I have been through over the last few years, it would need to be published as a book. But now I suffer from a disease which ends in death, Cancer. A disease that cannot be treated in Iran. Due to my illness, nothing remains of me except my skin and bones. Every day they send my mother from Kamyaran Court to Sanandaj and from there to Minab and back to Kamyaran in order for them to agree with my medical leave from prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5964'> According to Asoy Rojhelat News the defendant lost consciousness as a result of severe pain. Prison employees then transferred him to the Medical Ward </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5498'> It was reported that the defendant's intestinal cancer has progressed and that he is in dire physical condition. The cost of his treatment has been estimated to be approximately 185 million tomans and as such, the prison has refused to take any steps towards his treatment. Later reports referred to the fact that he was not allowed access to health insurance due to the confiscation of his identification documents during his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5974'> Afshin Nadimi, a labor activist and former ward-mate of the defendant in Sanandaj Prison, penned an open letter to the defendant wherein he praised his resistance </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5972'> Amnesty International issued a statement with regards to the defendant's condition and requested that its audience contact the Iranian government officials by sending letters and request that the defendant be released and allowed to receive treatment </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5685'> The defendant began a hunger strike by sewing his lips shut in protest of his not being allowed medical leave from the prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5980'> HRANA published a "request to donate funds to Afshin Sohrabzade". This request included Behrouz Sohrabzade's(the defendant's father) bank account information. Name of account holder: Behrouz Sohrabzade, financial institution: Melli Bank, card #: 6037997109402264 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5978'> According to HRANA he ended his hunger strike when prison officials were present and promised him that the prosecutor would be visiting the prison in this month </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5976'> According to a report by HRANA the defendant was transferred to the prison's Medical Ward. The prison physician issued a transfer for the defendant but this transfer was rejected by the prison's Intelligence Unit. This decision was protested by a lot of inmates and even ward officials. HRANA identified "Dadresi" and "Shirgir", two Minab Prison Intelligence agents as the main reasons for preventing the defendant's transfer </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5755'> It was reported that the defendant was transferred to the prison's Medical Ward due to his severe health conditions. The prison physician issued a transfer for the defendant but this transfer was rejected by the prison's Intelligence Unit. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5977'> HRANA reported that the defendant is deprived of access to health insurance due to the confiscation of his identifying documents during his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5958'> According to HRANA his brother, Kaveh Sohrabzade, was arrested by the IRGC as he was checking in on his brother's medical situation </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6280'> According to the Human Rights Defenders Association of Kurdistan, his ward-mates found him in one of the bathrooms unconscious after vomiting blood. According to this report the defendant, who was just transferred to hospital and back without medical attention, was unconscious for 17 hours. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6815'> The defendant's parents held a picture of him and a letter addressed to Ahmad Shaheed, requesting his help </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6117'> 14 human rights organization published a statement entitled "Death, cancer, and injustice threaten the life of Afshin Sohrabzade" and requested that the defendant be allowed access to medicine and treatment outside of prison. The statement also requested that the judiciary allow him to be tried in a fair trial. United for Iran was one of the organizations involved with issuing this statement </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6142'> HRANA reported that the defendant, a political prisoner incarcerated in Minab Prison who has cancer, is suffering from severe respiratory issues and is in dire condition. According to this report he is coughing up blood and that he has almost suffocated once </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6415'> He was transferred to hospital. Despite his physician's recommendation for him to be hospitalized he was returned to the prison on orders of prison security due to the nature of his case. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6757'> It was reported that the head of security in Minab Prison, "Saleh Barezi", beat the defendant, cancer-afflicted political prisoner, and forced him to sleep on the floor of the prison hallway. </coverage-outsourcing>