The third
hunger strike of Reza Shahabi is very alarming –Mahmoud Salehi, the spokesman
of the Reza Shahabi Defense Committee addressed the workers, the workers'
People and labour organizations.
Reza
Shahabi the imprisoned worker, the Treasurer and Executive Board member of the
Syndicate of workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company “Vahed” worte a protest
letter against the brutal prison conditions and lack of basic medical treatment
in prison with the title: “I am just one example of the violation against
health of prisoners”. In this letter he announced that to put his protest into
action he will in first step refuse taking his medication and medical treatment
and if no improvement action is initiated he will go on hunger strike.
After being
insult and mistreatment by the prison warder he changed his mind and decided to
go on hunger strike.
This is his
third hunger strike during the last three years, which can endanger his health seriously
and can lead to nonreversible damages.
In addition
to his post-surgery and chronic suffering he also suffers from high blood
pressure followed by nose bleedings.
The Reza
Shahabi defense committee strongly protests such conditions and mistreatment,
which forced Shahabi to make this decision. We state that the bad health condition
of Reza and the history of his hunger strikes make him more vulnerable by the consequences
of another hunger strike.
Therefore,
we declare the officials, who refuse Reza and many other prisoners the
fundamental human rights, responsible for the consequences.
The “Reza
Shahabi Defense Committee“ appeals to the workers and labour organizations to protest
in any possible form against the conditions that Reza Shahabi is facing.
“Reza
Shahabi Defense Committee“, December 19, 2012
