Kurdistan Human Rights Network

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...

Political prisoner Mohammad Nazari, imprisoned in Tehran for the past 24 years, has been on hunger strike for the past 77 days in protest to the non-enforcement of Article 10 of Procedural Law in his case. His health condition has been reported critical. “Mohammad Nazari, an Azeri political prisoner arrested and imprisoned on June 9, 1994, and sentenced to life imprisonment, is on...