A group of prisoners of conscience, who had been on a strike since 12 December to protest against their transfer to a newly-built high-security ward in Iran’s northwestern Orumiyeh, ended their strike today after meeting with the head of the prison.
The prisoners initially refused to receive prison food for five days. Last week they turned it into a hunger strike.
Reportedly, the head of Orumiyeh Central Prison visited the ward for political and religious prisoners today. In a meeting with the 47 prisoners, he agreed not to transfer them to the new ward.
The striking prisoners ended their hunger strike after the promise of the prison head.
With the transfer of prisoners to the new ward, all their communication with other wards would be cut off.
Additionally, the new ward has a smaller area and fewer services and facilities than the other wards.
It has been built next to the ward for prisoners carrying out penal labour and on the area of the prison’s main bath on two floors; one for the prisoners of the military court and the ground floor for political and religious prisoners.
The names of the hunger-striking prisoners:
Sirvan Hosseini Asl, Saman Hosseini Asl, Mohyeddin Tazehvared, Davoud Jabbari, Sirvan Amini, Amin Delneshin, Yaser Sharafaddin, Khaled Fereydouni, Arsalan Khodkam, Hossein Osmani, Mohyeddin Mollah-Ebrahimi, Dara Rashidi, Keyvan Rashozadeh, Kamran Ghasemi, Kamel Sidan Maskan, Anvar Chaleshi, Mohammad Saeidi, Towfiq Abdollahi, Mohammad Hosseinpour, Khosrow Zarestan, Seyyed Aram Aminol-Eslam, Farshad Fattahi, Hamed Ali Mohammad Mashkouh, Mokhtar Ebrahimi, Rahmat Daryabandeh, Siavash Javan, Mohsen Mahali, Taher Hosseinzadeh, Behzad Talaei, Hemin Chawshin, Behrouz Brakhas, Houshang Chamanbar, Hedayat Soleimanzadeh, Nayeb Askari, Ali Mohammadi Moghadam, Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi, Hamed Ghareh-Aghlani, Sardar Ozmash, Mohammad Birdal, Sakar Eini, Mohammad Houshangi, Farzad Samani, FiroUz Musalou, Shaker Behrouzi Dizaj, Keyhan Mokarram, Hatam Ozdamir, Mehdi Saaneh Farshi
