Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Corrections officers in Iran's western Ilam prison have severely beaten a prisoner on the second day of his hunger strike on 28 November. Prisoner Ruhollah Maleki had gone on a hunger strike on 27 November to protest against the 10-year-long uncertainty regarding his case. On 6 March 2012, security forces arrested the prisoner on the accusation of "premeditated murder". In 2014, the court of Ilam sentenced him...

Shaker Behrouz, a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death, staged a sit-in protest in front of the guard office of Orumiyeh Central Prison on 21 November, announcing a hunger strike in a letter. The political prisoner has gone on a hunger strike to protest against the pressure exerted by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on members of the complaining family...

Authorities of Orumiyeh Central Prison ordered the transfer of Azerbaijani-Turkic civil rights activist Mehdi Saaneh-Farshi to solitary confinement on the evening of 22 September, after he went on a hunger strike. The activist, who comes from Tabriz in East Azerbaijan province, went on a hunger strike earlier in the day. He demands the review of his five-and-a-half-year prison sentence given by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of...

Azerbaijani-Turkic prisoner and civil rights activist Mehdi Saaneh-Farshi has gone on a hunger strike today in Orumiyeh Central Prison. The activist is demanding the review of his five-and-a-half-year prison sentence given by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh. On 18 August 2020, security forces arrested the civil rights activist after his entry from Turkey to Iran. After the Ministry of Intelligence interrogated him for 26 days, he...

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 Nayeb Askari has gone on a hunger strike today as a court order has not been issued to transfer him to a hospital outside prison for a sonogram. The political prisoner has been suffering from a bleeding kidney for the past few days and is in poor physical condition, sources say. He has been transferred to the prison infirmary several times, and the...

The health conditions of prisoners of conscience Iraj Sofi-Mohammad and Qader Mohammadzadeh, who are on the 17th day of their hunger strikes, have been reported to be critical. Prison officials of Orumiyeh Central Prison have taken Iraj Sofi-Mohammad, who was held in solitary confinement, to the prison infirmary on 13 August after his health condition deteriorated, sources told the KHRN. Sofi-Mohammad, who has been in solitary...

Kurdish religious prisoner Iraj Sofi-Mohammad has gone on a hunger strike on 31 July, protesting against the opposition of the authorities of Orumiyeh Central Prison to his transfer to Mahabad, where his family resides. The prisoner has been taken to solitary confinement by order of the prison authorities after he went on hunger strike, sources say. Security forces arrested Iraj Sofi-Mohammad, who comes from Mahabad, on...