The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement on April 25, 2025, regarding political prisoner Kamran Rezaeifar. The statement reads:
“The henchmen of Khamenei are preventing the transfer of political prisoner Kamran Rezaei-Far, who is suffering from malignant stomach cancer to a hospital and blocking his hospitalization. Hedayat Farzadi, the criminal head of Evin Prison, is obstructing Kamran’s access to urgent and necessary medical care. He has been grappling with death for months and is enduring debilitating pain.”
Kamran Rezaeifar had been diagnosed with a stomach illness since November 2024. However, due to the authorities’ refusal to transfer him to a hospital, his condition worsened into malignant cancer. In a delayed surgery, part of his stomach and pancreas were removed. Without undergoing proper recovery and necessary post-operative medical care, he was returned to prison immediately after the operation. Subsequently, he developed a pulmonary embolism while in prison, and now he has blood clots in his lungs.
According to specialists, Kamran must undergo chemotherapy, but Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, the prosecutor’s office, and the head of Evin Prison are preventing his release or transfer to a hospital.
Kamran Rezaeifar, sixty years old, was arrested in September 2023 and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of connection with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
The NCRI called upon the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur, and all international human rights organizations “to take immediate action for the release of political prisoners, especially sick prisoners. Torturing prisoners to death by depriving them of medical care—a well-documented practice of the clerical regime—is a clear example of a crime against humanity.”
The pressure against political prisoners comes at a time when Iran’s regime has executed twenty-two people between April 21 and April 23. Out of fear of an explosion of public anger, the regime has unprecedentedly accelerated the pace of executions.
These executions are taking place while Western governments are engaged in negotiations with Iran’s regime. The ruling mullahs are attempting to suppress potential uprisings and protests by resorting to executions and acts of brutality.
The dire economic conditions, along with the repression, torture, and execution of dissidents by the regime, have pushed Iran to the brink of a nationwide uprising, and Iran’s regime is desperately trying to contain the situation.
