According to information received by IranWire, Neda Badakhsh, a 62-year-old Baha’i citizen, remains incarcerated in Dowlatabad Prison in Isfahan despite suffering from severe medical conditions, including diabetes, osteoarthritis, joint inflammation, chronic bone pain and sciatica.
Sources close to Badakhsh report that her health condition is critical, yet prison authorities continue to ignore repeated requests for medical furlough or specialised care.
Badakhsh surrendered herself to Dowlatabad Prison on December 27, 2025, to begin serving a five-year sentence. During her imprisonment, she developed sciatica, but despite experiencing acute pain and requiring urgent intervention, authorities have refused to transfer her to an outside medical facility.
Now, nearly eight months into her sentence, her physical condition has deteriorated significantly. Despite repeated applications by Badakhsh and her family for electronic monitoring through an ankle bracelet, medical furlough or conditional release, all requests have been systematically rejected.
Badakhsh was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “educational and promotional activities against the sacred sharia of Islam”, stemming from her voluntary work teaching basic mathematics and the Persian language to out-of-school Afghan refugee children.
