Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish civilians Jalil Ahmadi and Wrya Delangiz have gone on a hunger strike to protest against their "unlawful detention" in the Ministry of Intelligence's detention facility in Marivan, Kurdistan province. Security forces arrested Ahmadi on 2 October without a court order while beating him. According to one of his relatives, the civilian held in the detention centre of the intelligence ministry in Marivan since his arrest...

A speech therapist named Soran (Pouya) Rashidi and a civil rights activist by the name of Saman Ghazali who were arrested by the security forces in Qazvin and Mahabad in the past few weeks have gone on a hunger strike to protest against their continued illegal detentions. On the evening of 23 September, security forces raided Rashidi's in Qazvin and arrested him. His two-month-pregnant wife suffered...

Kurdish political prisoner Keyvan Rashozadeh has been transferred from solitary confinement in Orumiyeh Central Prison to an undisclosed location in the past few days. Rashozadeh, who had gone on a dry hunger strike on 13 June by sewing his lips to protest against the opposition of prison officials to his request for temporary leave, had been transferred to solitary confinement by order of the prison...

Authorities in Orumiyeh prison, Iran's northwestern West Azerbaijan province, transferred Kurdish activist Mohammad Houshangi to solitary confinement on the fourth day of his hunger strike on 26 February. Houshangi has been on a hunger strike since 23 February, protesting against his long detention and the objection of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to his temporary release despite the payment of...

Prison officers in Iran's western Ilam prison have severely tortured a prisoner named Shahram Mohammad-Beigi and transferred him to quarantine on 16 February. The prisoner has gone on a hunger strike on the morning of 17 February to protest against the torture. Reportedly, prison officials did not allow Mohammad-Beigi's family to visit him on 16 February. In the evening of the same day, the prisoner again requested...

A prisoner sentenced to the death penalty has gone on a hunger strike in Ilam Central Prison in Iran's western Ilam province on 25 January. Prisoner Kamal Bayani has gone on strike to protest against the insults of prison officers and head inspector towards him and his family during a family visit on 24 January. Reportedly, after Bayani objected to the insults of prison officers towards...

A hunger-striking political prisoner has lost his life on 1 January in Iran's Sheiban Prison in southwestern Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. Political prisoner Adel Kianpour had gone on a hunger strike on 25 December, demanding a fair trial and access to medical treatment. So far, government sources have not officially revealed the cause of death of the political prisoner. On 2 January, one of his relatives told the...

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...

A prisoner has lost his life in Iran's western Ilam province due to the negligence of prison officials to his deteriorating health condition after he committed suicide. Prisoner Ruhollah Maleki was on the fourth day of his hunger strike, protesting against the 10-year-long uncertainty in his case. He committed suicide on 30 November by taking medicine in a prison cell. He was transferred to the prison...