SHIRAZ, Iran — A diabetic Iranian Christian jailed for more than two months is in critical condition due to lack of medical treatment, even as new reports of Christian arrests surfaced the end of July.
Mahmood Matin and Arash Bandari have become frail from more than two months in prison, but the condition of Bandari, who suffers from diabetes, is critical. After two months of solitary confinement at a secret police detention center known by its address, Sepah Street 100, located in the center of Shiraz, Matin and Arash were placed in a cell together around July 15, sources said. From July 20–30, Iran’s Christians reported that another wave of arrests hit four cities.
Christians attending house churches in Bandar Abbas on the southern coast of Iran, in Isfahan about 207 miles south of Tehran and in Sanandaj and Kermanshah on the Iraqi border were arrested.
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