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Latest on Kurdish prisoners on hunger strike in Iran jails
Kurdish political prisoner on hunger strike Saeed Shirzad was transferred to a prison infirmary and then to a hospital outside his prison following a sudden drop in his blood pressure on 12 January. Another Kurdish political prisoner, Foad Yousefi, detained in Rajaei Shahr prison (Karaj), is also on hunger strike. Zeynab Sakanvand Lakran, a Kurdish female prisoner held in Orumiyeh prison, has put an end to...
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Tortured Kurdish religious prisoner on hunger strike in need of urgent prison leave
”Foad Yousefi, a 35-year-old Kurdish prisoner, has been on a hunger strike since Monday December 26, 2016 in protest to the unwillingness of prison authorities to grant him sick leave. Today on the 20th day of his hunger strike, his health is deteriorating rapidly. Throughout this period, not a single prison authority has checked in on him. He has only been allowed intermittent visits to...
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