Farid Enayati, a Kurdish activist and one of the detainees of the anti-government Women, Life, Freedom uprising, is currently in the 35th day of a hunger strike in the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Kermanshah, Kermanshah Province, commonly referred to as the Meydan-e Naft (Naft Square) facility.
Enayati’s continued denial of contact with his family and access to legal counsel has raised serious concerns about his health and well-being.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Ministry of Intelligence agents raided Enayati’s family home in Kermanshah on the evening of 14 November and arrested the activist and his brother, Hamid Enayati, head of the Paveh Mountaineering Association, without a warrant.
Enayati began a hunger strike immediately after being transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention facility in protest at his arrest and has refused to speak to interrogators, continuing his hunger strike and silence, KHRN has learned.
While Hamid Enayati was released on bail from Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah after 25 days in detention, Farid remains in custody without access to family visits or legal representation.
Repeated efforts by his family to obtain information about his condition from the judicial and intelligence authorities have been met with confirmation of his hunger strike and silence, but no further details have been provided.
Enayati, a Kurdish activist from Paveh, Kermanshah Province, who lives in Kermanshah, was previously arrested by agents of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on a street in Kermanshah during the Women, Life, Freedom uprising on 22 September 2022.
He was detained for three months at the IRGC’s Nabi Akram military base in Kermanshah, where he was subjected to intensive interrogation and pressure to make forced confessions.
The activist also went on a 41-day hunger strike during this time in protest at his prolonged detention.
Enayati was finally released on bail from Dizel Abad Prison after 105 days in detention.
