Kurdish political prisoner Reza Mollazadeh has been diagnosed with the Coronavirus in Borazjan Prison in Bushehr Province, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
Mollazadeh, serving a 16-year sentence in Borazjan prison, was diagnosed with the Coronavirus in recent days. The source added that prison officials had refused to send the political prisoner to a hospital outside the prison and he had only been examined several times by prison doctors.Reza Mollazadeh, from Ashnak village of Salmas in West Azerbaijan Province, was arrested in summer 2011, by the forces of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near the city of Paveh in Kermanshah Province. After his arrest, he was transferred to a security detention centre in Kermanshah, and a few days later he was transferred to another detention centre in Tehran.
He was deprived of the right to contact and visit his family for one year. In 2012, he was sentenced to death by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, headed by Judge Salavati. The sentence was reduced to 15 years in prison and exile to Borazjan Prison upon being contested and reviewed by the Supreme Court. He was also sentenced to one year in prison in another case on charges of “leaving the country illegally.”
The political prisoner was exiled from Tehran’s Evin Prison to Borazjan Prison after his sentence was finalized, and he is serving his ninth year in prison while being deprived of the right to parole and leave.
