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Mahmud Salehi is a worker activists spending time in prison. On his last meeting with his ‎wife, he told her that he was concerned about his life and well being. “There is a plot to ‎kill me at the hospital”, he said.‎

Salehi was recently transferred to Tohid hospital in the Kurdish town of Sanandaj ‎because of a heart ailment. The public prosecutor of Kurdistan has conditioned Salehi’s ‎release to a certification by the medical coroner about the prisoner’s health. In a letter to ‎public prosecutor’s office, the coroner had said, “Even though the prisoner’s kidney has ‎only a 10 percent working condition and he suffers from a heart ailment, he can still ‎complete his prison term.” ‎

Salehi has already spent a total of 8 years in prison for engaging in syndicate activities. ‎But despite this and his deteriorating medical condition, he is kept behind bars. He was ‎recently given a sentence of 1 year prison sentence, plus another 3 years of suspended ‎sentence. His sentence also includes provisions through which he is barred from ‎participating in any official or non-official meeting, from communicating with any media ‎or a person outside Iran, and using the Internet.‎