Doctor Alleges Iran Crackdown Extended Into Hospitals (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: This family is told to stop filming as they try to speak out about their 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head. In Iran, not even hospitals are safe from the regime.

[00:00:16] Speaker 2: Government hospitals were controlled by security forces and monitored by cameras. If injured people went there and were identified as protesters, staff on duty had to report them and they would be arrested.

[00:00:28] Speaker 1: This doctor we're not identifying for his safety is part of an underground network of medics treating injured protesters inside Iran. As medical facilities were taken over by the feared revolutionary guards, the regime's crackdown moved from the streets and into hospitals.

[00:00:51] Speaker 2: One case I saw was when patients were deliberately cut off from ventilators. They would say it's because they stood up against the Islamic Republic and have no rights, not even the right to live. In other cases, my medical team reported to me they delivered finishing shots to the wounded.

[00:01:09] Speaker 1: The Norway-based Iran Human Rights gathered similar testimony from medical workers who say patients were deliberately killed in hospitals. This was the most violent regime crackdown in the history of the Islamic Republic. With the widespread use of live ammunition and military-grade weapons, more than 11,000 were injured according to activists. Many too scared to go to hospitals are being treated in secret and doctors are risking their lives for what they say is a sacred duty. Speaking with us could mean prison for you or even worse. Why did you agree to speak with us?

[00:01:53] Speaker 2: I've locked the door with five different locks. I expect that at any moment, as I give this interview, they could break in and arrest me. I have chosen to put my own safety second and make sharing information about the injured and the war crimes that have occurred my first priority.