{"id":89921,"date":"2020-10-24T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=89921"},"modified":"2020-10-24T07:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-24T12:34:14","slug":"auto-draft-279","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2020\/10\/24\/auto-draft-279\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: Iran Denies Humanitarian Measures to Mother, Daughter Jailed for Protesting Compulsory Hijabs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"VOA \u2014 WASHINGTON – Iran has made the imprisonment of a mother and her daughter who campaigned against its compulsory public veiling of women harsher \u2013 denying the daughter medical care and refusing to grant her mother a furlough for no apparent reason, according to an informed source.<\/p>\n

The source spoke to VOA Persian in an Oct. 16 interview from Iran, describing several recent examples of authorities at Tehran\u2019s Evin prison engaging in harsh treatment of 22-year-old activist Saba Kord Afshari and her mother, Raheleh Ahmadi. VOA is unable to independently verify the source\u2019s account due to being barred from reporting inside Iran.<\/p>\n

The source said that while Iranian authorities allowed Kord Afshari to be hospitalized for serious ailments three times in recent months, they prevented her from getting the treatment that she needed before she was returned to Evin.<\/p>\n

London-based rights group Amnesty International has said<\/a>\u00a0Iranian authorities forced Kord Afshari to wait a year after her June 2019 arrest before allowing her to make her first hospital visit on June 29 for preexisting gastrointestinal problems that have been exacerbated in prison.<\/p>\n

Amnesty said the doctor failed to conduct a comprehensive examination of Kord Afshari and referred her for future colonoscopy, endoscopy and ultrasound procedures.<\/p>\n

But VOA\u2019s source said Kord Afshari was told that she cannot have those procedures because of her late hospital arrival and her lack of money to make payments. As a result, Kord Afshari\u2019s health problems have worsened since she was transferred to Evin in August 2019, the source added.<\/p>\n

Dublin-based rights group Front Line Defenders has said<\/a>\u00a0the regulations of Iran\u2019s Organization of Prisons stipulate that medical expenses of prisoners should be paid by the government. The group also said that when authorities granted Kord Afshari a Sept. 19 hospital visit, they misled her family by saying she was in a different hospital to ensure that relatives would not meet her and pay for her treatment.<\/p>\n