Activist refuses food in solidarity with fellow prisoner

 

 

Jailed student activist Arash Sadeghi has begun his own hunger strike in support of Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, the jailed blogger who has gone on a hunger strike to protest the refusal of prison authorities to provide him with urgent medical care.

Daneshjoo News report that Sadeghi, a member of MirHosein Mousavi’s campaign and a student activist at Allameh Tabatabai University, has informed his family that he has begun a hunger strike in support of Ronaghi Maleki.

Sadeghi, like Ronaghi Maleki, was arrested during the crackdown on protesters following the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. Sadeghi was sentenced to one year in jail plus another four-year suspended sentence. Sadeghi was released last February but then was arrested a month later.

According to his grandfather, who recently visited him in Evin Prison, he is being held in solitary confinement and is interrogated every 20 days.
Source : Radio Zamaneh