Iranians in Ireland concerned over fate of jailed Tipperary man

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Demonstration outside Leinster House in support of Bernard Phelan (64), who was arrested in Iran in October but never charged

According to his sister Caroline Phelan, he is being held in a cell with 16 other prisoners, some of whom have been sentenced for execution. The windows in his cell are broken and the temperature is minus 5 degrees outside. He is in poor health and has a heart problem. He has been refusing food since New Year’s Day.

They have asked Ireland to expel the Iranian ambassador and to support regime change in Iran. Largescale street demonstrations have been taking place in Iran since the death in custody of 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country’s so-called morality police. Since September 17th, over 19,000 individuals have been arrested and to date 690 of them have been sentenced to death, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency .

 

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