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The health of the Franco-Irish detained in Iran is deteriorating

2023-02-07T15:01:53.816Z


The health of Bernard Phelan, detained since last October in an Iranian prison, is still deteriorating, his sister said on Tuesday February 7...


The health of Bernard Phelan, detained since last October in an Iranian prison, is still deteriorating, his sister Caroline Massé-Phelan told AFP on Tuesday, February 7, adding that he is losing his sight.

She regrets that her brother is not among the "

thousands

" of prisoners that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised to pardon.

Unbearable prison conditions

As Bernard Phelan has entered his fourth month of detention, "

his health continues to deteriorate

," she writes.

He no longer sees clearly

”.

He had undergone corneal surgery last year.

Moreover, it fell last Thursday.

Getting out of bed, his left knee gave out.

He is in pain

,” she said, lamenting the inability to use walking sticks in the prison.

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Caroline Phelan-Massé recalls the unbearable conditions of imprisonment: “

25 meters from his cell are the cells of those who are to be executed after morning prayers

”.

"An innocent in the middle of I don't know what story"

Last month, she went public with his name after he went on a hunger strike and his health began to deteriorate.

"

He's an innocent in the middle of I don't know what story, who adored Iran, who is 64, who is sick, who just wants to go home,

" she said in an interview with AFP. urging the Iranian authorities to release his brother on humanitarian grounds.

Seven French detained in Iran

So far, repeated requests from the French Foreign Ministry to release him have gone unheeded.

Bernard Phelan had started a hunger and thirst strike in early January, before suspending it at the request of his family worried about a fatal outcome in the face of inflexible Iranian authorities.

Another Frenchman Benjamin Brière, detained in Iran since the end of May 2020 and sentenced to eight years in prison, began a hunger strike on January 28, his lawyer Me Philippe Valent and his sister Blandine Brière announced on Monday.

In total, seven French people are detained in Iran.

Source: lefigaro

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