Irán, República Islámica del - Death of a labour activist due to ill-treatment in jail

On 5 October labour activist Mohammad Jarrahi died from a thyroid cancer that was left untreated while he was held as a political prisoner in Iran’s Tabriz Prison. Jarrahi, a construction painter, was first arrested in Tabriz, northwestern Iran, in 2008 and charged with “propaganda against the state” for handing out labour leaflets. He was sentenced to a year in prison, but the sentence was suspended because judicial procedures were not followed correctly. He was then arrested again in Tabriz in May 2011 along with fellow labour activist Shahrokh Zamani, who died of a heart attack in September 2015 after being denied medical care in Rajaee Shahr Prison. They had been sentenced to five years in prison each for distributing labour movement newsletters and campaigning to form independent workers’ organisations.

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