Kurdish political prisoner Anwar Chalshi dies after IRGC intelligence blocks medical care
Hengaw: Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Anwar Chalshi, a Kurdish political prisoner suffering from cancer, has passed away after his condition worsened during the fifth year of his prison sentence. The IRGC Intelligence Organization is directly responsible for his death, having blocked his access to medical care and prevented the completion of his treatment.
According to reports received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, on Wednesday, February 16, 2025, Chalshi, a Kurdish political prisoner from Lorzini village, Margavar District, Urmia, lost his life in a hospital.
In mid-May 2024, as his colorectal cancer progressed, he required urgent medical treatment. However, the IRGC Intelligence Organization denied him medical leave, preventing him from receiving proper care. As a result of deliberate obstruction, Chalshi was forcibly returned to prison from the hospital while still in critical condition, wearing handcuffs and leg shackles, without completing his treatment.
On December 2, 2020, Anwar Chalshi was arrested along with two other Kurds, Kamel Jabarvand from Cherikabad village and Musa Alousi from Valandeh Olya village (Urmia County), by IRGC intelligence forces and transferred to the IRGC’s Al-Mahdi Detention Center in Urmia.
He was later sentenced by Branch One of the Urmia Revolutionary Court to seven years in prison on charges of “acting against national security through membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.”
While Musa Alousi was released on bail, Anwar Chalshi and Kamel Jabarvand were transferred to the political ward of Urmia Central Prison on January 14, 2021.
