Amnesty International criticized the Islamic Republic officials and asked them to release Arash Sadeghi immediately and without any preconditions. According to Amnesty International’s report, “Islamic Republic officials have purposefully denied medical treatment from Arash Sadeghi and therefore increased his pain and suffering and the injustice he faces from his unfair verdict.”

Although the doctors have confirmed that Arash Sadeghi is suffering from cancer, he is still kept in terrible conditions in Rajaei Shahr Prison.

The incarcerated civil rights activist recently sent a letter from prison on the World Human Rights Day, in which he talked about the numerous human rights violations in Iran and warned that “any silence or cooperation in the face of the Islamic Republic only encourages more domestic suppression and threatening the opposition abroad.”

Sadeghi’s health started to deteriorate after he spent 71 days on hunger strike in protest to his wife’s unjust arrest. She was arrested and sentenced to prison for a novel she had written even though it was not published.  

He has been sentenced to 19 years in prison.