Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish political prisoners Shaker Behrouz and Nayeb Askari, who had gone on a hunger strike in Orumiyeh Central Prison on 29 March, are still being held in solitary confinement after 14 days. The two political prisoners have been denied contact with family since the start of the hunger strike and are reported to be in poor health condition. On 29 March, Behrouz was summoned to the...

Prison guards in Orumiyeh prison, northwest Iran, have beaten hunger-striking Kurdish political prisoners Shaker Behrouz and Nayeb Askari with batons on 31 March. The prison officers have raided the cells where Behrouz and Askari are held in solitary confinement, taken them to the main quarantine hall, and beaten them in front of the other prisoners with batons. Reportedly, the incident took place after the prisoners set...

Kurdish political prisoners Shaker Behrouz and Nayeb Askari were transferred to solitary confinement on the orders of the authorities of Orumiyeh Central Prison on 30 March. The two political prisoners have been on a hunger strike since 29 March to protest against their transfer from the ward for prisoners of conscience to the quarantine ward and ward 2. In the past few months, following the transfer...

Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz, who is sentenced to death and is imprisoned in Orumiyeh Central Prison, northwestern Iran, has been summoned to the guards' office under the pretext of having a family visit and was transferred to ward 2 of the prison on 29 March. The political prisoner has gone on a hunger strike to protest against his transfer from the ward for prisoners...

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Hajizadeh is in critical condition in Orumiyeh Central Prison, Iran's northwestern province of West Azerbaijan, as he has been deprived of proper medical care. Hajizadeh had been sent to an out-of-prison hospital for surgery in the past few months and had been returned to prison after undergoing surgery without completing his treatment. He underwent platinum surgery and surgery for internal abdominal rupture...

Kurdish political prisoner Nayeb Askari fainted after having a seizure today in the new high-security ward of Iran's Orumiyeh prison, but prison officials opposed providing him medical treatment. All prisoners of conscience, who were transferred to the ward, have been denied access to medical services. Askari, who has been suffering from kidney disease for the past few months, had a seizure caused by a hunger strike...

Authorities in Orumiyeh Central Prison, northwestern Iran, continue to hold Kurdish activist Mohammad Houshangi in solitary confinement on the 13th day of his hunger strike, denying him communication with his family. Houshangi has been on a hunger strike since 23 February, protesting against his continued detention and the objection of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to his temporary release despite...

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...