Based on reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, Rahman Tabesh, a Kurdish political prisoner from Oshnavieh who is currently serving his sentence in the city’s prison, has been denied access to proper medical care following a deterioration in his health condition on Monday, July 28, 2025.
A knowledgeable source told Hana that despite Rahman Tabesh’s urgent need for transfer to a medical facility outside the prison, judicial and security authorities have refused to send him to a hospital. The only action taken was the administration of sedative injections in the prison infirmary—an intervention described as ineffective for his condition.
Rahman Tabesh was arrested by security forces in Oshnavieh on Monday, July 21, 2025, and transferred to prison to begin serving a 16-month sentence. This sentence had previously been issued by the Public and Revolutionary Court of Oshnavieh, presided over by Judge Ali Ansari, on charges of “membership in the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan.”
Mr. Tabesh had also been arrested earlier on December 30, 2024, by agents of the Intelligence Department at his home in Oshnavieh and was temporarily released on bail on February 17, 2025.
It is worth noting that he has a history of arrest and imprisonment in Naghadeh Central Prison on similar charges.
The denial of medical care to Rahman Tabesh comes despite Articles 22 and 39 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, as well as international human rights covenants, which emphasize the need to uphold the dignity and health of prisoners. Nevertheless, numerous reports have documented the systematic denial of medical services to political and ideological prisoners in Iranian prisons.