Arabi was reportedly denied hospital treatment despite suffering from severe coughing and infection.12 The situation of Ms. Narges Mohammadi13 has been raised in six communications of the Special Procedures since her detention in 2015. She suffers from numerous health conditions, including those identified as high risk in relation to COVID-19 although she remained in prison during the pandemic. While she was released in October 2020, she was denied adequate medical attention for most of her time in detention. In light of the aforementioned cases, the Islamic Republic of Iran has not provided urgently medical care to the those in detention who need it, including those identified in the Special Rapporteur’s January 2019 report. B. The Special Rapporteur recommends that the Government and Parliament ensure that all individuals in custody receive adequate, prompt and regular health care, including specialist care as needed, on the basis of their informed consent Article 39 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran stipulates that “All affronts to the dignity and repute of persons arrested, detained, imprisoned, or banished in accordance with the law, whatever form they may take, are forbidden and liable to punishment.”14 Iran’s Prison Regulations provide for the management and supervision of all prisons and detention center in the country, including the conditions of detentions such access to adequate food and water and medical care for detainees, visits and communications with the family. The Regulations specify that all prisoners should have access to medical care, including regular medical check-ups, and that their medical needs should be addressed to the extent possible unless transfers to treatment centers outside the prison is considered necessary.15 However, numerous reports received by OHCHR have indicated that detainees are regularly kept in poor conditions in Iranian prisons, notably due to overcrowding and serious lack of basic hygiene, lack of adequate food and water and denial of access to medical care. The Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran received numerous reports of abusive use of torture to extract confessions, use of solitary confinement, and medical 12 Front Line Defenders, https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/continued-detention-iranian-blogger-soheil-arabi-andjudicial-harassment-his-mother 13 United For Iran, https://ipa.united4iran.org/en/prisoner/2340/ 14 Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, English Translation, Iran Data Portal, https://irandataportal.syr.edu/wpcontent/uploads/constitution-english-1368.pdf 15 See more: Amnesty International, https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1341962016ENGLISH.PDF 3