"Mohammadi wrote of how her stretches in prison have caused significant damage to her health. She has suffered a pulmonary embolism, seizures, multiple infections, chest pain and other life-threatening medical events in prison, and describes the agonising wait for often inadequate medical care. The writings were smuggled out by fellow prisoners and visitors during Mohammadi's time in Iran's notorious Evin, Qarchak and Zanjan prisons, at considerable risk to their own safety."
The account describes torture through solitary confinement, constant interrogations, beatings, and deprivation of medical care during repeated imprisonments. It states that illness combined with imprisonment is worse than any hardship and describes authorities allowing the body to fail rather than carrying out executions. After the writings were produced and she was rearrested, her health deteriorated further, including major weight loss and an apparent heart attack followed by unconsciousness. Family and doctors’ requests for proper treatment by surgeons in Tehran were repeatedly denied. She is held in a regional hospital in Zanjan in critical condition, and her family characterizes the ongoing detention and refusal of care as a slow execution. The account also describes pulmonary embolism, seizures, infections, chest pain, and prolonged waits for inadequate medical attention.
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