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Jailed Iranian Union Leader in Severe Pain, Getting Insufficient Care, Wife
Says

Michael Lipin

   An Iranian teachers union leader, who has been jailed in Iran since
   2016 and whose prison term was recently extended by a decade, is
   receiving inadequate medical treatment for severe pain, according to
   his wife.

   In a Tuesday interview with VOA Persian from her home in Tehran, the
   wife of Esmail Abdi said the dissident told her about his health in a
   recent phone call from the city's Evin prison.

   Monir Abdi said her 46-year-old husband has been suffering pain in the
   left side of his body since he contracted the coronavirus at the prison
   in August. She said the illness compounded Esmail Abdi's other health
   problems, which include asthma, high blood pressure and weakness
   resulting from two previous hunger strikes, the last of which was two
   years ago.

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