Civil rights activist and student Viyan Mohammadi has gone on hunger strike on 31 May to protest against her unlawful detention.

A source familiar with the detainee’s situation confirmed the news to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) and said: “Viyan Mohammadi, who has been detained by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Tehran since 30 April, has gone on hunger strike on Monday, 31 May, in protest of her continued unlawful detention.”

Mohammadi was transferred yesterday, on the third day of her strike, from the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC to the quarantine ward of Orumiyeh Central Prison, but she continues the strike.

On 31 May, the third investigation branch of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Mahabad extended the activist’s temporary detention for another month.

Mohammadi’s husband, Faramarz Mohammadi, had been arrested in January in Tehran, during the wave of arrests of more than 120 Kurdish activists in various cities. He was transferred to the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Sanandaj and was then temporarily released on a bail of 300 million Iranian Tomans – nearly 12,000 USD. With her husband’s arrest in January, Viyan Mohammadi was also summoned to the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Sanandaj and was subjected to interrogation.