Kurdistan Human Rights Network

The hunger strike of prisoners Milad Karimi and Mohsen Bashiri, which began on 31 January, continues despite their transfer to solitary cells in Orumiyeh Central Prison, Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Karimi and Bashiri went on a hunger strike to protest against authorities refusing to transfer them to the prisons of cities where their families reside. They have been denied the right to communicate...

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...

A prisoner named Milad Karimi, who has been serving his three-year sentence in Orumiyeh Central Prison, went on a hunger strike on 31 August in protest against the filing of a new case and the issuance of a new verdict against him. On 1 September, the prison officials met with him in ward 2 and asked him to end his hunger strike. The prison authorities have...

Two young tradesmen named Milad Karimi, 18, and Pouya Mohammad-Azizian, 16, lost their lives as a fuel depot caught fire in the border village of Hani Garmaleh in the Nowsud district of Kermanshah province, western Iran, on 15 June. Another underage tradesman named Soran Ali-Mohammadi also suffered burns and was sent to Paveh city hospital, in Kermanshah province. The village of Hani Garmaleh is located at...