Prisoners Hadi Rostami, Reza Ramazani and Salah Karimi have gone on hunger strike to protest their transfer to solitary confinement cells in Orumiyeh Central Prison.
The prisoners, from Ilam in Ilam Province and Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province, have also been denied contact with their families, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned.
Rostami, who faces a sentence of amputation, was placed in solitary confinement as punishment by prison officials on 27 September and has entered the 12th day of his hunger strike.
He has since been transferred to the prison’s clinic due to kidney bleeding, the KHRN has learned.
The head of Orumiyeh Central Prison, Peyman Khanzadeh, met with Rostami in recent days and threatened to carry out his amputation sentence.
In March 2024, more than 800 prisoners held at Orumiyeh Central Prison published an open letter calling for Khanzadeh’s resignation, accusing him of mistreating prisoners and their families.
The letter also referred to several cases of prisoner suicides, which inmates blamed on harsh prison conditions.
Meanwhile, Ramazani and Karimi, both from Bukan, have entered the 13th day of their hunger strike.
The two men, previously arrested for their involvement in a fight in Bukan, were transferred to solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 26 September after being beaten and injured by prison guards in Bukan Prison.
