Evin Jail is situated within the hills of northern Tehran
Authorities in Iran have denied {that a} man died at Tehran’s Evin jail on Saturday on account of an absence of medical care.
A supply instructed BBC Persian that Faramarz Javidzad, 60, was taken to hospital after he suffered abdomen bleeding however was later returned to the jail.
Officers declined to maneuver him from the jail clinic after his blood strain dropped severely on Friday, they stated.
Preliminary reviews recognized Mr Javidzad as an American-Iranian twin nationwide, however the US stated he was not a citizen.
“We’ve no data to point as effectively that he was a lawful everlasting resident,” state division spokesman Matthew Miller instructed reporters in Washington.
“I’ll say, nevertheless, we’re nonetheless alarmed by the reviews that he was denied medical care by Iranian authorities… whereas he was of their custody.”
The information got here per week after Iran launched 5 American-Iranians as a part of a prisoner swap.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan information company cited Tehran province’s prisons division as saying on Monday that Mr Javidzad had been detained for 2 months at Evin on varied monetary costs, and that he was handled 5 instances for digestive issues throughout that point.
He just lately underwent a abdomen operation and was then discharged from hospital “at his personal insistence”, it added.
The prisons division stated Mr Javidzad was instantly transferred to hospital when his situation worsened on Saturday. Medical doctors and nurses administered CPR, however his life couldn’t be saved, it added.
Nonetheless, the account was contradicted by the supply who spoke to BBC Persian’s Ali Kheradpir.
They stated Mr Javidzad was placed on a drip on the jail’s clinic on Friday after his blood strain dropped, though a decide had given jail authorities permission to switch him to hospital.
That evening, a nurse on the clinic knowledgeable him that they had been “sleepy” and eliminated the drip, they added.
On Saturday, Mr Javidzad’s situation worsened and he died whereas awaiting switch to hospital, the supply added.
