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Emergency Transfer of Omid Behroozi to Hospital

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Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish lawyer, Omid Behroozi was transferred to Taleghani hospital on an emergency basis past midnight for a few hours.
According to reports by Majzooban Noor, Dervish rights defender, Omid Behroozi, who had a vein ruptured in his hand when Iranian guards and intelligence officials raided section 350 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, suddenly suffered a severe heart palpitations and shortness of breath at about three o’clock in the morning.
Then, he was being sent to the prison infirmary and after examination by a prison doctor, he was immediately transferred to Taleghani hospital by ambulance. He transferred back in prison after a few hour of being cared there.
Gonabadi Dervish, Omid Behroozi is a lawyer and his advocate’s license has been revoked due to defense of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Dervishes. Judge Salavati sentenced Omid Behroozi, who had been in pretrial detention at Evin Prison since 2011, to seven-and-one-half years in prison.