He didn’t escape prison. He was let out of prison on a medical leave. They allow prisoners to leave for a few days or a week or so in order to seek medical attention outside the prison.
They also will give prisoners a week or 2 out of prison on leave if they’ve been on good behavior, with the idea that they can go home to their families and friends and tell them about their time in prison (and show them the physical results) so that it may discourage others from getting any ‘bad ideas’ about breaking the rules.
Nice, huh?
Thanks for the clarification. I magine that he was under the watchful eye of the Iranian government, no?
Batebi escaped while he was let out to get medical treatment. He’s done this before, but he never left the country.
A year or more ago he was supposedly diagnosed with MS. I don’t know if that’s true or not. He has recently talked about being beaten on the right side of his head and he suffers chronic headaches as a result.
I haven’t seen any pictures of him in a year or 2. But in those pictures he certainly had changed from the handsome young man in the posters and he had difficulty walking.