Anarchist Prisoner Soheil Arabi on Hunger Strike in Iran

Soheil Arabi is a political prisoner and atheist which is being tortured and imprisoned for 7 years because of some face book posts, has continued his hunger strike since April 4th 2020

Political prisoner Soheil Arabi is in horrible health conditions due severe pain caused by “blunt trauma” and infection in the body ,frequent coughs and low blood pressure because of his previous hunger strike which has started since march 16 and after 10 days forced to use serum

Soheil Arabi had continued his hunger strike after using serum for 9 days on April 4th due to lack of medical cares and not being granted leave to himself and other political prisoners due to the outbreak of corona in prison

This is while no physicians remain in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary and the prisoner’s inquiries to get medicines have got nowhere. Prison authorities do not account for the life and health of prisoners and want to kill them silently

He needs treatment and surgery due to a physical injury and severe pain but has been denied medical treatment

He has been told that all the expenses of hospital should be paid by himself due to the fact that he has been tortured by Islamic Revolutionary guards agents

In light of low hygiene in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, the large number of prisoners and the spread of Coronavirus in prison, the life of political prisoners, detained in this prison are in danger

Prison authorities have repeatedly prevented treatment of Soheil Arabi to add to his suffering in prison and get him killed silently

In April 2019, he was beaten up in prison and suffering physical damage

His illness has aggravated after nine months of denial of medical care. Infection has spread in his body and he has severe pain

Soheil Arabi explains about his illness: “After writing and publishing an article about the conditions of prisoners detained in ward 1 of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, I was transferred to Ward 1A of the IRGC Sarallah Garrison. The interrogator there got mad after asking a few questions and kicked me hard in the testicles. When I came to, I was in Firouzabadi Hospital. The physician told me that I had suffered a blunt trauma for which I must be operated on as soon as possible to remove my left testicle. After eight months, however, I have not been sent to hospital. Infection has spread to other parts of my body and I feel severe pain in the legs

On January 21, Soheil Arabi rejected the pressures by the Intelligence Ministry to express remorse for his recent statements condemning the killing of innocent people on the ground and in air by the Islamic Regime’s Revolutionary Guards and Khamenei’s plainclothes agents. He was subsequently sent from Evin Prison to exile in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary

Soheil Arabi was arrested and sentenced to death in 2013 after criticizing Islam and prophet of Islam in his face book page and weblog

After the appeal, he was sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment and when it was finished, they sentenced him 3.5 years more imprisonment and exile