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Life of Hossein Ronaghi Maleki in danger
An imprisoned Iranian blogger suffering from kidney failure has begun a hunger strike to protest against maltreatment during detention.
In a recent letter to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, jailed activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki said that he was going on hunger strike to protest the repeated denial of medical furlough.
In an interview with Radio Farda, Ronaghi Maleki’s father said that the authorities had continually denied his son medical leave despite his dire health condition in Evin Prison. Since his arrest in December 2009, Hossein has undergone surgery five times due to kidney failure developed under torture.
“He [Hossein] says he’s suffering from severe kidney pain … My son was healthy before they destroyed his kidneys,” Ahmad Ronaghi Maleki. “He says he’s gone on hunger strike ‘because they [the authorities] want to kill me’.”
“If my son dies, the Revolutionary Guards and his interrogators will be held accountable. Hossein is requesting furlough and surgery.”
Ahmad Ronaghi Maleki called on the country’s Leader Ali Khamenei, the Intelligence Minister, the IRGC and the judiciary to intervene in order to save his son’s life. He said that the IRGC as well as Hossein’s interrogators had objected to his release, albeit temporarily.
“The interrogators want to torture my child to death. Once again, I’d like to warn that my son will die if he is not granted leave.”
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, 26, was detained in December 2009. After ten months in “temporary” detention, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced him to fifteen years in prison on charges of membership in the Internet group “Iran Proxy,” “propaganda” against the state, insulting the Supreme Leader, and insulting the President. The court’s ruling was later upheld by an appeals court.
The blogger, who used the pseudonym Babak Khorramdin, is a founder of Iran Proxy, an anti-censorship group launched in 2003.[1]
Since his arrest, Ronaghi Maleki has written numerous letters to Tehran’s Chief Prosecutor regarding his poor health condition and the abuse he suffered in prison. After once such letter in August 2011, he was beaten severely by prison staff and was subsequently transferred to the infirmary at Evin Prison.
Ronaghi was denied leave even during the Iranian New Year in March.
Recently, another political prisoner, Mohammad Reza Motamednia, ended his 42-day hunger strike against the ongoing house arrest of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi. After learning of the strike, and through intermediaries, Mousavi called on Motamednia, who had already been hospitalised, to end his strike.
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