Tehran Greater Prison: Denial of Medical Care and Continued Confinement of Reza Ramazanzadeh in the Ward for Violent Offenders

Ramazanzadeh in the Ward for Violent Offenders

On May 2, 2025, Reza Ramazanzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner currently serving a 2-year and 6-month sentence at Tehran Greater Prison, remains confined in the ward for violent offenders for over four months. Despite suffering from severe stomach and gastrointestinal issues, he is being denied medical treatment.

According to a source speaking to Kurdpa, Mr. Ramazanzadeh, who has a history of multiple arrests and imprisonments, is suffering from serious digestive problems due to previous hunger strikes. However, prison authorities continue to refuse him access to proper medical care.

Kurdpa had previously reported on December 21, 2024, that even one month after his arrest, this political prisoner was still being held in the violent offenders’ ward without visitation rights or access to a phone card. Despite repeated requests, Tehran Greater Prison authorities persist in holding him in that ward and denying him both visitation and phone privileges.

On November 20, 2024, Reza Ramazanzadeh, a civil and political activist and one of the detainees of the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom) uprising, was arrested to begin serving his 2.5-year sentence and transferred to Tehran Greater Prison. Reports indicate he was detained outside his home in Tehran, and the sentence stems from two separate cases.

Ramazanzadeh had previously been arrested on October 9, 2022, in Tehran during the Jin, Jiyan, Azadi uprising. He was later sentenced by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to 1.5 years in prison for “collaboration with hostile networks.”

Additionally, on April 17, 2025, Branch 24 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Radmand, sentenced him to 1 year in prison on charges of “spreading false information.” This ruling was upheld by Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals.

Previously, this civil activist had been arrested during the November 2019 nationwide protests and sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for “acting against national security.”

Mr. Ramazanzadeh has a record of repeated arrests in the years 2013, 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024. In recent years, he has faced detention and sentencing for publicizing the dire conditions of inmates and prisons, including Tehran Greater Prison and Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad.

Reza Ramazanzadeh is ethnically Kurdish, originally from the Kurds of Khorasan, and currently resides in Tehran.

It is worth noting that due to his previous hunger strikes in prison, he now suffers from serious gastrointestinal complications.