Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervish in Nezam Prison, Kasra Nouri has launched a hunger strike as a protest against authorities’ disregard to jailed Dervishes’s demands today at down.
According to a report by Majzooban Noor, blogger and Dervish rights activist, Kasra Nouri who had announced his intention to fast in solidarity with ill Dervish prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin prison started his hunger strike today on Sunday 11 Esfand 1392 ( Mar 3, 2014).
Kasra Nouri after being informed about the events of recent days in ward 350 of Evin prison warned that if authorities do not take effective action upon ill Dervishes’s situations until the end of Saturday, he will begin his hunger strike on Sunday at dawn. This prisoner of conscience has stated: ” I ask the authorities to avoid social unrest and do not reveal any more oppression of Dervishes in Iran.”
Kasra Nouri is demanding to eliminate obstacles for Afshin Karampour’s medical leave to receive the medical treatment he needs and paying attention to other ill Dervishes’s situations in ward 350.
Currently Kasra Nouri is serving his 4.5 years prison sentence in Nezam prison.
It is notable that, Kasra Nouri along with another jailed Dervish Saleh Moradi on 27th Day 1391 (Jan 16, 2013) had been protesting with a hunger strike against the illegal transfer of their Dervish lawyers to solitary confinement in Evin prison for 90 days and after transfer of seven Dervish lawyers to general ward 350, they ended their prolong-term hunger strike.