Manouchehr Bakhtiari's wife, Sara Abbasi, wrote on Instagram:
"Despite my husband’s illness, the regime adds a new burden to our suffering every day. It seems like there is no end to this oppression—every day, a new court summons. This time, they have combined two false charges against my husband in Qazvin Prison: ‘insulting the leader’ and ‘spreading lies online’—just because he said they are trying to kill him by denying him medical leave. For this, he was sentenced to 13 months and 15 days in prison, plus another 6 months for ‘insulting the leader.’ They merged these sentences, but words fail to describe the regime’s so-called justice."
She continued:
"It doesn’t stop here. Right after discharging my husband from the hospital and returning him to his cell, they kept giving him false hope, telling him that his medical leave was approved and all that was needed was collateral—only to crush that hope repeatedly. And now, they have fabricated yet another case against him, this time without any official notice. They held a virtual trial in Branch 1 of Qazvin’s interrogation court, accusing him of ‘disturbing public opinion.’
To the judiciary, I say: If you want to give him a life sentence, just do it, rather than tormenting us like this. Don’t give my imprisoned husband false hope of freedom, only to break him again.
The injustice they have inflicted on my husband, my child, and me since murdering Pouya is so immense that history will never forget it. This regime only knows how to crush the innocent. You have destroyed our lives for years—imprisoning a grieving father simply for seeking justice for his murdered son, denying him medical care, and fabricating case after case to ensure he never gets out. Is this your justice?
Your government is a disgrace to all dictatorships, and we will remember your name forever as a symbol of oppression.
Despite multiple letters from hospital medical boards and forensic doctors over the past three years, my husband remains deprived of medical leave, wasting away in a prison cell. Seeking justice is not a crime.
Manouchehr Bakhtiari’s life is in danger. Be his voice—he has always been the voice of the oppressed people of Iran."
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