Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Kurdish prisoners Aram Omari, Rahman Parhazou, Amir Moshtagh Gangachin, Fakhroddin Doudkanlou Milan, and Ashkan Osmannezhad went on a hunger strike in Orumiyeh, north-western Iran, protesting against their "unfair" sentences. After they announced the hunger strike, the prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement on the orders of prison authorities. In February, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh sentenced Omari and Parhazou to death, and Gangachin, Doudkanlou Milan...