K.M.M.K
Tehran / Kurdistan, Reports received from human rights organizations indicate that security forces of the Islamic Republic have emptied pharmaceutical distribution warehouses, preventing citizens particularly injured protesters and critically ill patients from accessing essential medical supplies. This action, widely viewed as a clear violation of the rights to life and health, has raised serious concerns at the international level.
Charitable Medical Aid to Ilam and Kermanshah Halted
According to documentation from the Kurdistan Human Rights Collective (KMMK), charitable donations worth approximately 100 million tomans, allocated for the purchase of medicines for the regions of Kermanshah and Ilam, have been left in limbo.
Representatives of the donors, who visited pharmaceutical distribution companies in Tehran to collect the consignments, found the warehouses empty. Company officials confirmed that government security forces had confiscated all existing stock prior to delivery and transferred it to undisclosed locations.
Possible Scenarios: Systematic Repression or Heavy Casualties Among State Forces?
Human rights observers and activists have put forward two main hypotheses to explain this unprecedented action:
1.Weaponizing medicine: Authorities are deliberately blocking access to medical supplies for wounded protesters to force them into state-controlled medical facilities, where they face the risk of arrest.
2.Shortages due to internal casualties: The scale of demand for medical supplies by the regime’s armed forces may point to the intensity of clashes and the governing apparatus’s own urgent need for these limited resources.
Violation of International Law
The deliberate denial of medical care and life-saving medicines to civilians constitutes an illegal and inhumane act under international conventions and human rights charters. This situation is unfolding as many patients in under-resourced regions face the risk of death in hospitals due to the lack of even basic medications.
Editorial Note: This report is based on field data collected by human rights activists inside Iran and highlights new dimensions of pressure on civil society through the control of vital, life-sustaining resources.
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