Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The health of Mohammad Khodkam, a prisoner from Bukan in West Azerbaijan Province, has taken a critical turn as he enters the twenty-fifth day of his hunger strike, protesting against a harsh prison sentence and fine. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Khodkam, who began his hunger strike on 23 December 2023, has twice been transferred unconscious from the quarantine ward to...

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi is now in the 19th day of his hunger strike in the infirmary of the Orumiyeh Central Prison, West Azerbaijan Province. Despite the severity of his physical condition and the prison authorities' agreement to grant him temporary leave, the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) continues to oppose his request. Since he began the hunger strike, Gol-Mohammadi has...

Prisoner Heidar Feyzi went on hunger strike and sewed his lips shut on 27 October in Bukan prison, West Azerbaijan Province, in protest at a recent court ruling against him. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that Feyzi was arrested in May on charges of "financial crimes" and subsequently transferred to Bukan Prison. After the prisoner announced his hunger strike, he was placed in...

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi has entered the sixth day of his hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province. Gol-Mohammadi began his dry hunger strike on 14 October in protest at the rejection of his request for leave by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation. The political prisoner was transferred from the political prisoners' ward to the prison infirmary on 19...

Kurdish political prisoner Abdolaziz Gol-Mohammadi, who is serving a sentence of ten years and one day in Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, began a dry hunger strike on 14 October in protest at the rejection of his request for leave by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organisation. Gol-Mohammadi delivered a letter to the prison authorities on 14 October declaring his hunger...

Imprisoned Kurdish rapper Saman Yasin and 12 other political prisoners have been on a hunger strike since 3 September in protest at their transfer to Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj and the harsh conditions in their ward. The 12 prisoners on hunger strike with Yasin are Saeid Masouri, Loghman Aminpour, Jafar Ebrahimi, Afshin Baymani, Sepehr Emam-Jomeh, Mohammad Shafei, Masoud Reza Ebrahiminezhad, Hamzeh Savari, Kamyar Fakour,...

Civilian Sajjad Moradivandan has been on a hunger strike since 14 March and has sewn his lips shut to protest against his continued detention. Moradivandan was arrested two months ago and has been demanding his release ever since. Despite his critical health condition, the Ilam prison and court authorities have ignored his requests for release so far. The civilian had left Abdanan due to fear of arrest...

Prisoners Milad Karimi, Mohsen Moradi and Mohsen Bashiri went on a hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 31 January to protest against authorities refusing to transfer them to the prisons of cities where their families reside. After the prisoners announced their hunger strike, prison guards severely beat them and transferred them to solitary cells on the orders of Parviz Saeidzadeh, the head of Ward...

Kurdish political prisoner Sardar Ozmush went on a hunger strike on 1 January to protest against his continued "unjust" imprisonment at Orumiyeh Central Prison. Ozmush, a Kurdish civilian from Turkey who holds Iraqi citizenship, was arrested by security forces in Orumiyeh on 11 December 2019. He was then taken to Orumiyeh Central Prison after 10 days of interrogation at one of the city's security detention...