Push to bring once-jailed Iranian activist to Canada for life-saving transplant
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Elham Modarresi was jailed for protesting the Iranian regime and denied a critical medication for a liver condition. Now she's facing liver failure in a Turkish hospital.
Thirty-three-year-old Elham Modarresi, an artist from Iran, went from protesting an authoritarian regime on the streets of Tehran to fighting for her life in a Turkish hospital as she suffers liver failure.
Modarresi was imprisoned for three months in November 2022 after participating in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement that rocked Iran in 2022, following thein-custody death of Mahsa Jina Amini.
She escaped to Turkiye after her release, where she is now seeking asylum. But while she was imprisoned, she was denied medication for a genetic liver disorder.
Her sister Nahid Modarresi is now pleading for help.
“Please help save my sister’s life,” she told Global News by video chat from an undisclosed location in Turkiye. Global News cannot reveal the exact location for her safety.
“We don’t know what we’re doing. Please help my sister. Please. Canada. Young people, please save my sister,” she said.
Iranian-Canadian human rights activists are banding together help save Elham’s life, and are sponsoring her to come to Canada to get a life saving transplant that would be almost impossible to attain in Turkiye.
Nahid suffers from an autoimmune disease and can’t donate her liver, but according to activist Nazanin Afshin-Jam, there are several volunteers who are willing to give in Canada.
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