Teenage Bahai Lost 40% of His Hearing in Prison

Source: sensday.wordpress.com

Faez Baqheri, a 17-year-old Bahai from Yazd who was arrested, along with his father Nasser Bagheri, in their home on February 28, 2015, has been moved from prison to hospital because of a severe infection of the inner ear. He is said to have incurred the infection during his detention and interrogation, and to have lost 40% of his hearing. Although he needed nursing care, the prison officers took him in handcuffs and ankle shackles for a brief medical examination and then took him back to prison.

Faez Bagheri’s mother, Mrs. Fariba Ashtari, began a  3-year sentence in the Central Prison in Yazd on February 21, 2015. She also has a 1-year suspended sentence.