Jailed Iranian journalist Saeed Razavi Faghih has been sent to Tehran Heart Centre for medical treatment, reported Human Rights Activists News Agency on March 1.

Saeed Razavi Faghih, who has been arrested on a number of occasions, is currently serving a three-year prison sentence on charges of “insulting the Supreme Leader” and “propaganda against the regime” for making a speech that was critical of the regime.

Since his latest arrest in March 2014, Razavi Faghih has been hospitalized several times due to medical neglect in prison.

In February 2015, he was sent to hospital to receive heart surgery. According to reports, he was chained to his hospital bed and banned from having visitors. A picture of him located in the hospital confirms this. Following a short stay in hospital, Faghih was taken back to prison despite doctors stating he was too unwell to handle the stress of prison.

Speaking to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in January, Razavi Faghih’s brother, Massoud, said his brother’s poor health had deteriorated in prison since the surgery.

In January 2016, he was reportedly transferred from Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj to Ward 7 of Tehran’s Evin Prison.

According to Human Rights Activists News Agency, Razavi Faghih went on a two-day hunger strike to protest lack of medical care but ended the strike after being sent to hospital.

In the speech that sent him to prison, Razavi Faghih made references to the political unrest, which had taken place after the controversial presidential election of 2009 and rejected official claims that the dispute between the Iranian people and the government was resolved.

Read more about Saeed Razavi Faghih on his profile.