Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh has ended his 39-day-long hunger strike in Yazd Prison on 8 September after authorities promised to follow up on his demands. Mohammadzadeh went on a hunger strike on 31 July to protest against the Mahabad Public Prosecutor’s refusal to grant him temporary leave. A member of Ghader Mohammadzadeh's family spoke to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN). He said: “In the last...

Kurdish political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh has been on a hunger strike in Yazd Prison for 37 days and is in poor health. Mohammadzadeh went on a hunger strike on 31 July to protest against the Mahabad Public Prosecutor’s refusal to grant him temporary leave. The Kurdish political prisoner, who has been serving the 16th year of his 20-year prison sentence in Orumiyeh and Yazd, has so...

Kurdish political prisoner Ghader Mohammadzadeh ended his hunger strike on 21 November after a month and nine days upon the promise given by officials of Yazd Central Prison to address his demands. Mohammadzadeh had gone on a hunger strike on 16 October the announcement of his seven years imprisonment sentence in relation to a second case. The political prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement at Yazd Central Prison...