Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Abubakr Rostami, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row in Zahedan prison, began hunger strike after being transferred to the quarantine. Moreover, Tohid Qureishi and Hamza Darwish, two prisoners of conscience detained in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj who had been transferred to a solitary confinement cell after being attacked by security forces on Monday, have gone on hunger strike. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN)...

Following the attempt of Sunni prisoners to prevent the transfer of Tohid Ghoreishi to the court, Special Guard forces targeted the prisoners in hall 21 in ward 7 at Rajai Shahr Prison by tear gas while beating them and transferring some of the prisoners to solitary confinement cells. Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has been informed that. following the refusal of Tawhid Qureshi to attend...

Saeed Shirzad, a political prisoner detained in Rajai Shahr prison was emergency transferred to Madani hospital in Karaj on Saturday, December 01 due to severe kidney pain. Doctors advised that there was a cyst in one of his kidneys and his right kidney was abnormally smaller than the left one. However, he was transferred back to the prison on the same day despite the need for...

Hamza Darwish, a Sunni prisoner at Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, who is reportedly on a hunger strike since Sept 25, 2018, is suffering from weight loss, very low blood Pressure and chest pain after 55 days of hunger strike. So far no action has been taken with regard to his demands for a retrial by the Supreme Court as well as access to...

Hamza Darwish, a Sunni prisoner in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, has been on hunger strike since March 17, 2018, in protest to the unfair trial and the lack of “Crime Based Wards Separation” rule. As a result, his health condition is currently critical. Moreover, security forces have threatened this prisoner's family to force him to stop hunger strike and cooperate with the security...

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...

An informed source told Human Rights Network Kurdistan that Kurdish Sunni prisoner, Ghasem Abasteh has been on a hunger strike for 11 days in protest to the lack of medical care in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to the source in a past few month, Abasteh has been suffering from a tumour around his tonsils that caused him difficulty in breathing. Due to the lack of medical...