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payvand – Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner in Iran, has lost the ability to move his right arm due to an infection on his shoulder that has been left untreated in Rajaee Shahr Prison, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
“After the biopsy, the assigned doctor prescribed monthly hospital visits to check his tumor and stop its growth,” said the source who spoke on the condition of anonymity for security reasons. “But the head of Rajaee Shahr Prison always comes up with some excuse to prevent Sadeghi’s transfer to the hospital.
“He can’t control the movement of his arm and the infection on the spot of his surgery is getting worse every day,” added the source. “The doctor in the prison’s clinic says that he should be dispatched to a hospital to get the tumor examined and if it doesn’t stop growing, he would need chemotherapy, which would require long-term hospitalization.”
The civil rights activist’s father, Hossein Sadeghi, is scheduled to visit his son in prison on February 13.
“Arash’s condition is getting worse every day,” he told CHRI on February 10. “What’s certain is that he needs to be urgently hospitalized.”
Sadeghi, who has been serving a 15-year prison sentence for his peaceful political activities since 2016, underwent a biopsy in June 2018 and was diagnosed with Chondrosarcoma, a rare form of cancer that causes bone tumors, according to a source with detailed knowledge of his case.
Sadeghi’s last visit to a hospital outside the prison with specialized medical practitioners was in September 2018 despite repeatedly requesting to go back for further treatment.
