...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...and treat prisoners by senior detention officials, according to a new report from
Leaked official letters shown to the human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
organization sent to the Ministry of Health show officials at Iran’s Prisons Organization "raising the alarm" over shortages of much-needed sanitary and medical products and devices.
"These official letters provide damning evidence of the government’s appalling failure to protect prisoners. Requests for urgently needed disinfectant products, protective equipment and medical devices have been ignored for months." said Diana Eltahawy,
"This is particularly alarming as the letters also note the presence of a highly vulnerable population in Iran’s prisons," she added
The Ministry of Health did not respond to the officials’ desperate pleas, according to the report, which claims Iran’s prisons remain "catastrophically unequipped" for outbreaks.
"Overcrowding, poor ventilation, lack of basic sanitation and medical equipment, and deliberate neglect of prisoners’ health problems, are making Iranian prisons a perfect breeding ground for COVID-19," added Eltahawy.
Over 100,000 detainees in Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
have been granted temporary release or sentence remissions since March in an effort to mitigate the spread of the virus in prisons.
But a UN group of experts said this month that released inmates were now being returned to prison, despite a second wave of the virus in the country, according to AFP.
While Iran is gripped by the COVID-19 outbreak, the authorities' hold over its prisons is slipping. UN officials say they are "horrified" at reports of brutality emerging from the country’s overcrowded prisons as the situation spirals out of control. Half a dozen riots have been reported in the past three weeks. At least a hundred prisoners have escaped, and some outbreaks have turned deadly.