URGENT ACTION DEATH ROW KURDS ON HUNGER STRIKE Six Sunni men from Iran’s Kurdish minority have been on hunger strike since 4 November, in protest at their death sentences and the conditions they are held in. All have been suffering health problems as a result. Jamshid Dehghani, his younger brother Jahangir Dehghani, Hamed Ahmadi, […]
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Promise of death-row reviews ends hunger strike
The 1,800 prisoners of Qezel Hessar Prison who had gone on hunger strike against the death penalty ended their strike after authorities made a series of promises. HRANA reports that on Wednesday morning, judicial and prison officials visited prisoners in ward 2 of Qezel Hessar and assured convicts on death row that their files […]
11 prisoners hanged in Ghezel Hesar prison / Ward 2 on Hunger Strike
Following the execution of 10 men and a woman on charge of drug trafficking in Ghezel Hesar prison, 1800 prisoners of ward 2 went on hunger strike. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), 11 prisoners including 10 men from Ghezel Hesar prison and a woman from Gharchak prison of […]
A political prisoner on hunger strike in Evin prison
Mohammad Hasan Yousef Pouryousefi the political prisoner of ward 350 of Evin prison is on hunger strike demanding the authorities to pay attention to his critical health condition. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Yousef Pouryousefi, the human rights and labor children rights activist and the former responsible of […]
6 Sunni prisoners are on hunger strike in Ghezelhesar prison
Six prisoners of Ghezelhesar, who were sentenced to death, went on hunger strike, in response to decision of the authorities for their transfer.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), six Sunni prisoners of conscientious of ward four in unit three, were informed that due to approaching to Moharram month, they […]
Prisoners’ hunger strike targets poor medical care
Four Iranian political prisoners have begun a hunger strike to protest the lack of adequate medical care for prisoners. According to HRANA, human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltni, human rights activist Mehdi Khodayi and political activists Amir Khosro Delirsani and Saeed Madani began a hunger strike on Saturday November 2 in ward 350 of Evin […]
Daughter of jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Soltani says he started hunger strike
The daughter of a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer says her father has started a hunger strike to protest the conditions of his imprisonment. Maede Soltani, who lives in Germany, said Abdolfattah Soltani stopped eating on his 60th birthday on Saturday, to protest the lack of medical care for himself and other dissidents jailed […]
Guards return blogger to jail after brief hospital visit
Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who was transferred to hospital on Tuesday afternoon by order of the Tehran Prosecutor, was then returned to Evin Prison by the Revolutionary Guards. A friend of the family who asked to remain unidentified told the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA): “Hossein Ronaghi was brought to hospital at […]
Ward 350 Political Prisoners: We Are Witnessing The Gradual Death Of One Of Our Cellmates
15 political prisoners incarcerated in Evin Ward 350 have written to Chief Judiciary Ayatollah Amoli Larijani voicing their concernm and warning him about the dire health condition of on-hunger strike political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki. Hossein Ronaghi was arrested on December 13, 2009, during the unrest that followed the disputed presidential election of 2009. […]
Amnesty International: Seriously ill Iranian blogger must be released from prison immediately
An Iranian prisoner of conscience and blogger on hunger strike to protest his unfair detention must be released immediately and unconditionally to receive treatment as his health deteriorates, Amnesty International said. Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, 28, is serving a 15-year prison sentence for “membership of the [illegal] internet group ‘Iran Proxy’”, “spreading propaganda against the […]