Yesterday evening, on 29 Esfand 1392 ( Mar 20, 2014) a few hours before Persian New Year 1393, imprisoned Dervish lawyer, Afshin Karampour was taken to Shohada e Tajrish hospital and hospitalized.
According to Majzooban Noor, after many months, jailed jurist Dervish in ward 350 of Evin prison, Afshin Karampour who is suffering from severe pains in kidneys and spinal cord which impede him from moving, was admitted in hospital to get medical treatment he desperately needs. However, doctors had diagnosed him as having a neurological disorder that requires immediate medical attention in hospital but Tehran’s Evin prison officials denied his admission to the hospital and sent him back to prison before he could receive any medical treatment while he never really able to walk normally, and he has to use a wheelchair! He was forced to leave the hospital against the physician’s advice.
It is important to say that, furthermore 10 Gonabadi Dervishes in prison began a hunger strike which joined by more than 3500 other Dervishes outside of prison — in Iran and elsewhere in Europe, India, and other countries — who have also gone on hunger strike to protest state pressure that Dervishes are facing including delays in transferring Afshin Karampour into hospital and to defend the rights of their suffering
brethren in Iranian prisons.
Also Gonabadi Dervishes had a rally on Saturday and Sunday, Mar. 8 & 9, 2014 in front of the Tehran’s Prosecutor office. Although their protest was confronted by violent reactions of the security and special guard forces, the protesters ended gathering after officials promised to investigate their demands. Dervishes are still waiting for authorities to fulfill their promises.