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Injured Demonstrators Arrested at Hospitals

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(20 June 2009)  Numerous Iranians beaten and injured by security forces as they tried to stage peaceful demonstrations have been arrested and detained when they sought medical treatment in hospitals, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported today.

Heavily armed Iranian police and military units, as well as paramilitaries, confronted thousands of citizens as they tried to assemble. According to information received by the Campaign, police wielding batons and using water cannons and tear gas injured hundreds. There have been unconfirmed reports of several deaths. One witness told the Campaign she saw a female demonstrator get shot in the neck.

“The arrest of citizens seeking care for wounds suffered at the hands of security forces when they attempted to exercise rights guaranteed under their own constitution and international law is deplorable,” said Hadi Ghaemi, spokesperson for the Campaign.  “It can only be taken as a sign of profound disrespect by the state for the well-being of its own people.”

According to information received by the Campaign, doctors had already been ordered to report protest-related injuries on 19 June.

Fear of arrest in hospitals has left injured protesters, some in serious condition, with no opportunities for treatment, and some have reportedly sought care in foreign embassies.

The Campaign called for a full and transparent accounting of the number of those injured and killed in demonstrations, and appealed to the authorities not to interfere with the work of health-care institutions.

In another development, the Campaign has learned that communications out of Tehran’s Evin prison have been cut off.  Evin prison is where many of Iran’s long-term political prisoners and a number of intellectuals, opposition politicians, human rights activists and journalists detained over the past several days are incarcerated.

“Blocking contact with friends and family means that all in Evin are in a virtual state of incommunicado detention, a state that puts them at an intensified risk of torture,” Ghaemi said.



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Brian Ahier
Jun 21, 2009 1:31

This makes me so sad and gives some real perspective to the problems facing healthcare in America.

liela
Jun 21, 2009 4:13

In Iran Human’s right has never been respected. Not in the old regime , not in this regime. Ayatolla’s regime has committed the most atrocities against citizens of Iran as if there is no tomorrow. It is nothing new!!!!.

Larry Papa
Jun 21, 2009 8:53

American’s support you and pray for our Freedom !

Steven Bleczko
Jun 21, 2009 19:06

CALL A GENERAL STRIKE! Use the ulimate weapon of the people–withdrawal of their labor, as the means to force an end to this repression. Shut down all of the regime’s means of support until they show respect for the will of the people. Passive resistance, as practiced by Ganhi and Martin Luther King, has proven its effectiveness many times in modern history. Don’t let the regime trap you into playing by their rules by holding large demonstrations where you can be attacked like sheep going to the slaughter. Just stay home and SHUT IT DOWN! Spread this idea to everyone you know by phone, email, text message, Twitter, etc.

Sarah
Jun 24, 2009 13:02

What makes these all worst is that our government repeats & spreads lies & apocryphal confessions…
they just keep accusing disputed election losers! and keep arresting more protesters
today (June 24) Intelligent ambassador again announced that “who encourage people to go on rallies are in charge of murderers and injuries”!!!!
hehe our deputy judiciary chief also threatened that they will treat to protesters so that they become gazing stock for others….
but we stand & continue defiance by going on rallies & staging in sits to show that they are not what we want

Elisabeth
Jun 25, 2009 20:05

Steven Bleczko had a good idea, exept than that Ghandi’s situation was different: it was the Indiens against Great-Brittain.
Well, you never know, it can help stop the violence against the Iranian people by the Mullah-government.

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