Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoner Omid Saeidi has entered his ninth day of a hunger strike in Khoy Prison, in north-west Iran, and his physical condition is reported to be poor. Saeidi began his hunger strike on 4 July in protest at the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to his furlough request, and sewed his lips together as a symbol of...

Kurdish political prisoner Omid Saeidi, who started a hunger strike on 4 July by sewing his lips in protest against the opposition of the Ministry of Intelligence in Orumiyeh, West Azerbaijan province, to his temporary leave, was threatened with transfer to another city. The threats of exile came during a meeting on the third day of Saeidi's hunger strike when he met Khoy Posecutor Yaghoub...

Omid Saeidi, a Kurdish political prisoner serving a ten-year sentence in Khoy Prison, has gone on a hunger strike in protest at the Ministry of Intelligence's opposition to granting him temporary leave. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that today the political prisoner delivered a letter announcing his hunger strike to prison authorities. In the letter, Saeidi wrote that he was transferred to Khoy...