The arrest and repression of doctors and medical staff by the Iranian regime’s security agents in various cities continues. According to reports from Iran, agents have raided the homes and workplaces of doctors and medical personnel who helped treat injured protesters and violently arrested them.
During the protests, at Golsar Hospital in Rasht alone, a large number of bodies were transferred from the hospital to the morgue, and more than ten teenage girls aged 16 to 17, who had been injured by gunfire, lost their lives.
In one reported case, regime agents abducted an injured girl who had survived surgery, taking her from her hospital bed while she was still in postoperative condition.
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It is also said that regime institutions deliberately blocked blood bank services and provided blood exclusively to medical staff at treatment centers affiliated with the armed forces.
According to reports, after security agents learned that some doctors and medical staff had admitted injured people free of charge and performed surgeries on them in hospitals, they raided their homes or workplaces and arrested some of them.
Earlier reports indicated the arrest of Dr. Ameneh Soleimani, a physician and director of a skin and hair clinic in Ardabil, saying that she was arrested by security forces in recent days for admitting and treating people injured during the protests.
At least four doctors have been arrested in Ardabil. Additionally, a first responder named Khosrow Minaei, who was treating injured people in his home, was arrested on January 14 after agents raided his residence.
In this context, the human rights organization “Hengaw” reported the arrest of Dr. Alireza Golchini, a surgeon and physician from Qazvin, for providing medical services to citizens injured during the popular protests. According to these reports, this doctor is facing the charge of “enmity against God” and the risk of a death sentence.
Arresting doctors to cover up the scale of the killings
According to some reports, Dr. Farhad Nadali, a surgeon, specialist physician, and faculty member at Golestan University of Medical Sciences, was arrested on January eight and nine after protesting the shooting of protesters and the wounded by regime agents, and there is no information about his condition.
According to published reports, Babak Pouramin, an emergency medicine specialist, was also arrested on January 19.
Some reports indicate that this doctor is currently being held in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad.
According to a report by the British newspaper The Guardian, extensive testimonies from doctors, forensic staff, and cemetery officials paint a troubling picture of the real scale of the crackdown on protests in Iran. This picture and the number of fatalities, according to witnesses, differ significantly from official figures.
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Due to the lack of free access to the internet inside Iran, estimating the number of victims is extremely difficult, but all sources speak of several thousand people killed by the Iranian regime’s security forces.
One doctor inside Iran, whose name was not disclosed in The Guardian report for security reasons, says that in the early days of the protests, most of the injured presented with superficial wounds, but gradually the nature of the injuries changed.
He explains that suddenly they were confronted with wounds showing signs of direct gunfire or deep injuries; many of those people lost their lives. According to this doctor, fear of identification and arrest caused many injured people to never go to state hospitals.
It appears that the widespread wave of arrests of doctors is not solely due to medical staff providing aid to the injured but rather is linked to the Iranian regime’s intense efforts to eliminate evidence of crimes and the killing of people by cutting off the internet and arresting witnesses.
