According to the news published by the Coordinating Council of Educators’ Trade Union Organizations, today 13 September Jafar Ebrahimi, a member of the board of directors of this council, was sent from Qezel-Hesar prison to Rajaei Karaj Hospital due to serious physical conditions and worsening illness. The Islamic regime is responsible for the life and health of Jafar Ebrahimi and must be held accountable. Depriving prisoners of treatment is part of the Islamic Republic’s policy of repression in prisons and the silent killing of political prisoners. So far several prisoners have been lost their lives because of lac of treatment in prisons.
Jafar Ebrahimi has been in a difficult physical condition for some time due to intestinal disease and diabetes, and in this regard, it was warned that the worsening of the disease may lead to his blindness. But the Islamic authorities refused to send him to hospital earlier. Not only that, but instead of issuing a permission for Ebrahimi to be admitted to the hospital, on 3th September along with twelve other political prisoners, he was transferred from Evin prison to the notorious Qezelhesar detention center outside Tehran. As a result, he and his fellow prisoners went on strike and demanded to return to Evin prison and to remove the new charges as an immediate measure. “Threatening the security of the country” and “disturbing the peace of society” are the new charges brought against him in a new case.
In statements, Amnesty International has spoken about the dimensions of repression and crimes by the Islamic regime and condemned this regime. In a statement published on Wednesday, September 13, this organization called on the international community to take action at the international level to pursue the crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran during the uprising of the woman Life Freedom revolution.
The Education International too, in a statement has condemned the criminal policy of the Islamic regime in relation to the situation of Jafar Ebrahimi and the new cases against him and his deportation to Qezel Hesar prison, and demanded the release of Jafar Ebrahimi and all the imprisoned teachers and his immediate treatment.
In addition to Jafar Ebrahimi, Aziz Qasimzadeh, Mahmoud Siddiqipour, Anoush Adeli, Mehdi Fathi, Hashem Khasta, Rasul Bodaghi, Asghar Amirzadegan, Nahid Shirpisheh, Zainab Hamrang, Javad Lal Mohammadi and Mahmoud Malaki are other detained teachers. Ismail Abdi is another imprisoned teacher who was released from prison temporarily on 11th September. He was arrested in 1995 with a six-year sentence, and at the end of his sentence, another ten years of imprisonment was issued for him and his imprisonment continued.
An urgent demand of the teachers in the campaign of 100 thousand signatures is the release of Jafar Ebrahimi and all the imprisoned teachers and the closing of the security cases against them and all the political prisoners.
September 13, 2023