Yashar Tohidi

Yashar Tohidi is an Iranian student and political prisoner.

During the Evin Prison fire incident he sustained severe gunshot wounds, but remains in prison and has been denied proper medical care despite the deterioration of his physical conditions.

Activism and sentence Yashar Tohidi is a student of Aerospace engineering at the Islamic Azad University.

In early 2022 the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentenced him to three years and five months in prison on charges of “acting against national security through membership in one of the Marxist groups” and “propaganda against the state”, of which the severest punishment of two years and nine months on the charge of “acting against national security through membership in a Marxist group” was enforceable per Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code.

In June 2022, he surrendered to Evin prison to begin his sentence. According to resources both of his legs were severely injured due to live ammunition. He did not immediately receive medical care. Finally after two weeks he was taken to a hospital where he received surgery and the bullet heads and pellets were removed from his thigh. On several occasions he has been taken to the prison clinic on a stretcher, given painkillers and returned to the ward. It is possible that he may lose one of his legs due to lack of medical attention. The infection has reached the main nerve of his leg but prison authorities refuse to send him to a hospital or release him on medical furlough.