Contagious Skin Disease Breaks Out In Evin Prison

HRANA News Agency – An outbreak of a contagious skin disease and negligence in ward 8 of Evin prison have caused concerns among the inmates and their families. According to one of the prisoners three people have become ill over the past week.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the symptom of this skin disease is excrescences like an old wound that usually starts in the abdomen and is associated with significant pruritus.
One prisoner said: “One of the inmates thought that it was scabies, but later found that it was not scabies and is a new disease.”
There has not been any accurate diagnosis and possible medical care by the prison clinic.
A large number of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are now kept alongside dangerous criminals and non-political prisoners in contrary to the principle of separation of crimes in ward 8 of Evin Prison.
A number of older prisoners have described ward 8 as “the worst ward and a place of exile for political prisoners “.

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