Tag: hunger strike

Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani asked the Azerbaijani prisoners to end hunger strike

  On the 21th days of hunger strike the prisoners’ relatves do not have permission to contact the strikers following this situation a group of civil right activist along with the prisoners’ relatives decided to meet the Shia clerics in the Ghom and ask their intervene. According the Yeni Gamoh web site reports, Ayatollah Bayat […]

Hossein Ronaghi is in critical health condition

  Although Hossein Ronaghi Maleki is in critical health condition and cannot take his medicines because of stomach bleeding the authorities do not allow him to be transferred to clinics. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the blogger and political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki is suffering from serious kidney disease […]

Offended by Irancell, Sunni political prisoners go on hunger strike

  Following a message broadcast by Irancell, the Sunni community in Iran was deeply offended, and 160 Sunni political prisoners went on hunger strike in Rajai-Shahr Prison. The hunger strike began on Saturday, July 20, and will last for two days. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the message included […]

Gonabadi Dervish, Saleh Moradi, Sentenced to One Year in Prison and One Year of Exile

  Dervish rights activist, Saleh Moradi who has been temporarily released from AdelAbad prison two days ago, sentenced to one year jail term plus one year of exile by Kavar’s General Court.According to Majzooban Noor, Gonabadi Dervish, Saleheddin Moradi Sarvestani, was sentenced to one year in prison and one year of exile on charges of […]

Political prisoner released after weight, health plummet

  Iranian political prisoner Mehdi Khazali was released from Evin Prison on the night of Monday June 3. Kaleme reports that Khazali began another hunger strike after Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, who had been the top reformist candidate seeking the Iranian presidency, was disqualified from the race. According to the reports, Khazali was in critical condition, […]

Prisoner resumes hunger strike over election

  Mehdi Khazali, the Iranian political prisoner who had ended his hunger strike following the announcement that Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani has registered as a presidential candidate, has resumed his hunger strike. The Neday-e Sabz Azadi website reports that Khazali is once again refusing food after the Guardian Council disqualified the moderate cleric Ayatollah Rafsanjani from […]

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