Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Hunger Strike of a 70-Year-Old Kurdish Prisoner at Orumiyeh Central Prison

A Detained Kurdish prisoner, citizen of Turkey who has been held at the central prison of Orumieh since 2010, has been on hunger strike on Sunday, November 11, in protest of his not being transferred to Turkeys prison. A source close to the family of the prisoner told Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) Hatam Ortoglu, a 70-year-old resident of Gawar, was arrested in 2010 in...

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