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British Embassy in Tehran denies Visa to a Patient in Need of Urgent Care

Kamangir | August 2, 2008 | Category Human Rights

Mahmoud Farjami, a well known Persian blogger, reports that the daughter of one of his acquaintances is denied entry to the UK despite the fact that she needs urgent care to save her eye.

In an open letter to Jeffrey Adams, the British Ambassador to Tehran, he describes that an Iranian girl has lost the sight of one of her eyes and that Iranian physicians have warned her family that she is to have the same problem with her other eye if she does not receive help. While the physicians have stated that they are not able to even stop the progress of the illness, her father is told that a new technique developed in the UK could be helpful to her. Therefore, her father, although being a low-level government worker, has handed out the regarding document to the British Embassy in Tehran and thanks to donations and help from both inside and outside the country he has managed to collect the demanded 6500 GBP in the bank. His application, however, has been denied because it is not understandable to the embassy how a person with a 136 GBP-per-month salary has managed to collect such an amount.

Farjami writes,

[Mr Ambassador,] I am ready to provide you with more information and I am accessible through the email address m_farjami@yahoo.com.

He states that he will contact media sources if the actions taken by the embassy lead to her not receiving medical help and thus losing her eye sight.

Reader's Comments

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meaux | August 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Perhaps the Iranian government should spend more on medical research and less on weapons of mass destruction?
Pantea | August 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 am
To meaux:

Could you please let me know to which extent exactly is this poor girl responsible for what Iranian government is doing on weapons of mass destruction?
Global Voices Online » Iran:British Embassy denies Visa to a Patient | August 3rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
[...] an Iranian blogger, reports that a girl is denied entry to the UK despite the fact that she needs urgent care to save her eye. [...]
Matthew | August 3rd, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Perhaps if the Islamic Republic spent more energy on encouraging research into medical techniques, and less energy on keeping men and women apart on buses, this wouldn’t be an issue. Frankly, it’s a shame about this girl’s sight but after all the mass executions, rape, political imprisonments, and training of murderers abroad by the Islamic Republic, I refuse to fault Britain anything for refusing someone a visa. Marg bar Jomhoriye Elsamiye kasif. Maybe if this girl’s father would kill some of the mullahs who monopolize and rob Iran’s economy, there would be more medical equipment and more medical experts in the country.
Mani | August 4th, 2008 at 3:33 am
to meaux

If this is your ultimate argument i think the United States should also freeze all its NASA, weapon industry, nuclear stuff etc to help its homeless people, % 25 of its population withouth health care and education system instead !!!!

And by the way are these weapons of mass destruction the same as those which you found in Iraq or they are a new innovation?

It seems every one wants to blame Iranian government and not the stupid, selfish and ignorant British Ambassador who just know how to talk about the human rights.
leo | August 4th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
To 2 and 5,

WTF
leo | August 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Mani,

If you think your post make more sense than that of meaux, do not.
Robby | August 4th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Can they perform the same treatment in another country? Can the doctor come to Tehran and do the treatment? Maybe the British doctors can help the Iranian doctors perform the technique?

This is cruel.
Matthew | August 4th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
There’s nothing cruel about this. It’s just crappy. Cruel is mass executions and moral policing.
Mahsa | August 10th, 2008 at 3:15 am
We are talking about a human being here! someone’s eyesight, how can u relate it to politics as if it’s such a routine normal event? is it fair to retaliate like this? this girl is being punished for what? what is wrong with you people?
Robby | October 5th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Has anyone heard anymore of this child? Did she care she needed?