Varisheh Moradi denied medical treatment despite critical health condition in Evin Prison

Hengaw: Saturday, March 29, 2025

Varisheh Moradi, a Kurdish political prisoner, women’s rights advocate, and a member of KJAR (the East Kurdistan Free Women’s Society) has been sentenced to death by the Iranian judiciary on charges of “armed rebellion”. Despite her urgent need for medical care, she has been denied treatment due to obstruction by government authorities, particularly Evin Prison officials.

According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Varisheh Moradi, a Kurdish political prisoner from Sanandaj currently held in Evin Prison, has been refused transfer to medical facilities outside the prison.

Sources familiar with the matter state that Moradi suffers from lumbar and cervical disc disease. Despite a specialist’s strong recommendation for urgent surgery three months ago, authorities have deliberately obstructed her access to medical care.

Previously, Hengaw reported that Moradi was subjected to severe torture at the Intelligence Ministry’s detention center in Sanandaj. In one instance, she vomited blood and lost consciousness due to the intensity of the torture.

Varisheh Moradi was sentenced to death by Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati, on charges of “armed rebellion” through membership in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK).

During both the first and second court sessions, Moradi’s lawyers were denied access to her case file, and she was not allowed to defend herself in court.

In a separate case involving four other political prisoners in Evin Prison, Moradi was sentenced by Branch 2 of the Qods Judicial Complex in Tehran, presided over by Judge Abolfazl Ameri Shahrabi, to six months of discretionary imprisonment.

On Tuesday, December 26, 2023, after five months of solitary confinement in the Intelligence Ministry’s detention facility—known as Ward 209 of Evin Prison—Moradi was transferred to the women’s ward of the prison. She had initially been moved to Ward 209 in late August 2023, following interrogation and torture at the Sanandaj Intelligence Ministry’s detention center.

Varisheh Moradi was abducted by Intelligence Ministry agents on August 1, 2023, while traveling from Marivan to Sanandaj. During the abduction, she was brutally beaten and was transferred to a detention center without receiving any medical attention.