A number of political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison issued a declaration describing prison officials preventing medical treatment for political and ordinary prisoners in the clerical regime’s prisons. Excerpts of this declaration are as follows:
“It appears that prison officials have adopted a policy of slow and semi-natural death instead of executing political prisoners. Otherwise, what would be the purpose negligence regarding the medical conditions of prisoners to the point death other than a silent execution! For example, a number of political prisoners who sought medical care at Evin’s clinic realized the orthopedist comes to the prison once a month and for only a few hours to respond to Evin’s nearly 5,000 prisoners…Mohsen Dokmechi… one of our three inmates who lost their lives would be alive today if he had received proper medical care in time. Thus, we would not have to live only with his memories.”