Women's rights activist, Mahboubeh Karami, in poor physical health in prison

Human Rights Activists in Iran
Mahboubeh Karami, a human rights and women's rights activist and a former colleague of the Human Rights Activists in Iran is in poor mental and physical health in cellblock 2A in Evin prison.

Karami who was arrested on March 2, 2010 by the Revolutionary Guards Forces Intelligence Department is suffering from influenza and has not received proper treatment.

She is also under mental pressure because she recently lost her mother and her father is in very critical condition. Interrogators have threatened that they will extend her detention order to put her under pressure and force her to give televised confessions.

This is while her detention order will expire on May 1, 2010 and her case has to be referred to the Revolutionary Court for a bail order because her interrogations have ended.