Within the late hours on Sunday March 29th 2020, the prisoners kept in Brigade 2 of Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, held a mass protest against their limitations on the right to leave, health services, disinfectants and other Prisoners’ rights.
According to the reportage of Human Rights In Iran, on Sunday March 29th 2020, at 10:00 o’clock in the night, following the mass protests happend in the prisons of Iran, the Prisoners jailed in Brigades 13 and 14 of Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, protested against their deprivations of accessibility to health essentials, disinfectants to sterilize their environment and other prisoners’ rights.
Based on the announcement of Kazem Mousavi, head of the Judiciary in Fars province, declaring these protestations he said : ” Followed by the conflicts in Adel Abad Prison, about 10:00 in the night, the prisoners in Wards 13 and 14 of this prison staged a mass protest.”
Kazem Mousavi also said: ” The prisoners kept in these two wards of Adel Abad, who held the protests are of violent and special crimes receiving no facilities.”
Mousavi continued: ” The prisoners who are prisoned in these two Wards started breaking the fences and the CCTVs (closed circuit televisions=Surveillance cameras), but soon the crisis was taken under control by the presence of Protective Forces of prison and by Military-Security Guards.”
After the mass protestations held by the prisoners, jailed in Adel Abad Prison of Shiraz, Chahar Raah (Cross road) prison Street and Mianroud Street in Shiraz were blocked by Security Forces in order to prevent the prisoners from escaping.
Moreover, the informed civilian sources, while sending some videos to the reporter of Human Rights in Iran (HRI), indicated: ” All across the city is under the presence of Security Forces, and SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team is located around the streets leading to Adel Abad Prison of Shiraz and the citizens’ minutest actions are suppressed.”
It must be noted that during the recent days of coronavirus widespread in Iran, at least 70 prisoners in Saghez (Saqqez) Prison who had held a mass protest against their deprivations of the leave right, health essentials and disinfectants for sterilization of prison environment, escaped from this prison.
Earlier than this, also on Thursday March 19th 2020, some of prisoners jailed in Parsilon Prison of Khorram Abad, a city in Lorestan province had broken out of this prison.
On Saturday March 28th 2020, prisoners kept in Hamedan (province) Prison, throughout a wave of dissatisfaction with the current situation in the prisons of the country, had expressed their objection against their limitations on accessibilty to health care items and disinfectants to avoid coronavirus infection and other rights of prisoners such as the leave right.
In the course of the recent weeks, regarding the widespread of coronavirus and its expanded infection among the prisoners in country prisons, and considering the group life of these citizens in infected environments, likewise their vast restrictions on health care essentials, and the lack of accessibilty to medical services and treatment in the dispensaries of the country prisons, these Items have been the cause of a wave of protests by prisoners.
Individuals’ accessibilty to medical and health care facilities is one of the instances accentuated in Article 25 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), that spotlights the persons to deserve the social rights accessibilties such as health, treatment, food, housing, clothing and social providing facilities in the time of unimployment, illness, deformity and handicap, widowhood, oldness or any other situation in which the persons are incapable to earn and lead a respectable life.
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