Kurdish political prisoners Aram Omari, Rahman Parhazou, Amir Moshtagh Gangachin, Fakhroddin Doudkanlou Milan, and Ashkan Osmannezhad have been on hunger strike at Orumiyeh Central Prison since 14 March, protesting against their “unjust” death and prison sentences.
In February, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Omari and Parhazou to death, and Gangachin, Doudkanlou Milan and Osmannezhad to 10 years in prison.
The court charged these prisoners with “participation in intelligence cooperation and espionage for Israel”.
After they announced the hunger strike, the prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement on the orders of prison authorities and have so far been denied the right to contact their families or receive visits.
Security forces arrested the Kurdish prisoners in Orumiyeh between the fall of 2021 and early 2022 and transferred them to a security detention centre in the city.
Forced to “confess” under severe physical and mental torture, they denied all allegations of the security agencies during their trial, adding that they were “tortured” during their interrogation.
