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According to HRANA, authorities have not provided information about the cause of his death to his family yet and pressured the family \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hra-news.org\/2022\/hranews\/a-34428\/\u0022\u003Eto bury\u003C\/a\u003E his body on April 15.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EA person familiar with the case told Human Rights Watch that Salehi was transferred to the hospital for a heart condition in January 2022. HRANA \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hra-news.org\/2022\/hranews\/a-34428\/\u0022\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E that the reason for Salehi\u2019s transfer was a stroke.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2020, Branch 2 of Isfahan\u2019s revolutionary court \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/iran-protester-accused-killing-soldier-executed\u0022\u003Esentenced\u003C\/a\u003E Salehi and four others to death on charges of \u201carmed rebellion and enmity against God through the use of firearms,\u201d and to five years in prison on the charge of \u201ccorruption on earth through disrupting public and private security.\u201d All defendants appear to have been acquaintances of Asghar Haroon al-Rashidi, a man shot to death during the protests in Khomeini Shahr. The verdict, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/08\/11\/iran-protester-accused-killing-soldier-executed\u0022\u003Ereviewed\u003C\/a\u003E by Human Right Watch, fails to attribute responsibility for the commission of a specific crime to each defendant individually.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIranian prison authorities regularly fail to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.iranhumanrights.org\/2022\/03\/denial-of-medical-treatment-for-ailing-political-prisoners-in-iran-aimed-at-crushing-dissent\/\u0022\u003Eprovide\u003C\/a\u003E prisoners with adequate access to medical care. Salehi is the third prisoner to have died in custody in Iran since the beginning of 2022. In January, Abtin Bektash, the writer and poet, and Kian Adelpour, a prisoner in Ahvaz, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/01\/10\/iran-writer-dies-custody\u0022\u003Edied\u003C\/a\u003E under unclear circumstances. Their families allege that prison authorities delayed or restricted their access to health care. On April 12, Amnesty International \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/MDE1354472022ENGLISH.pdf\u0022\u003Epublished\u003C\/a\u003E a report documenting the apparent deliberate denial of access to medical care in the case of more than 90 prisoners over the past 10 years.\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGiven the repeated failure to investigate, Iranian authorities should immediately allow for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of Salehi and others who recently died in custody.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]