Amnesty InternationalHossein Ronaghi Maleki, a 30-year-old Iranian blogger, was taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison on 20 January, after he reported to the Office of the Prosecutor, and is now held in Section Seven of the prison. He had written on his Facebook page on the same day, “My refusal to return would mean the confiscation of the bail amount and that would be a breach of the bail bondsmen’s trust and a nullification of commitments and moral principles.”
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has only one functioning kidney and according to his doctors needs constant monitoring and access to specialized medical care, which he cannot get in prison. Nevertheless, the Office for the Implementation of Sentences sent him a summons on 20 December 2015, telling him that he must return to prison within a month to resume serving his sentence, or else the bail amount set to secure his release would be confiscated. Hossein Ronaghi Maleki had been on medical leave since June 2015. In spite of his poor health, the authorities had told him several times that he “must return [to prison]”.
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