Kurdistan Human Rights Network

Kurdish prisoner Ali Mohammadi-Moghaddam went on a hunger strike on Saturday, October 10, in protest to the enforcement of his release order made by the Tehran Military Court being sabotaged. The prisoner was transferred to solitary confinement after going on a hunger strike. However, despite the forensic medicine reports and a history of dozens of suicides attempts in prison, he is still being held in...

Rahmi Turgut and Kamran Darwishi, two Kurdish political prisoners held in Orumiyeh Central Prison, ended their hunger strike on Aug 28, 2019. According to the information obtained by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Rahmi Turgut, a Kurdish citizen of Turkey who had been on hunger strike since July 22, 2019 in protest against the refusal of authorities to grant him conditional release or transfer him...

Kamran Darwishi, a Kurdish political prisoner who has been in Orumiyeh Central Prison since May, has sewn his lips and gone on hunger strike. The political prisoner, who is serving the fourth year of his five-year imprisonment sentence, has demanded his immediate release after being issued with a forensic certificate confirming that he was unable to bear imprisonment. A source familiar with the case of the...

Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN): Hiwa Mosazadeh, a prisoner from Piranshahr, who had sewn his lips and gone on hunger strike since Tuesday, May 28, 2019, in protest to his transfer from the Open Prisoners' Section of Naghadeh Prison to the quarantine section of the prison, is still on strike. This prisoner was transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison on the fourth day of his strike,...

Ramin Hossein Panahi, a death Row political prisoner who has been transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj from Sanandaj Central Prison since Aug 13, 2018, went on hunger strike by sewing his lips. The lawyers of this political prisoner issued a statement confirming that this political prisoner had gone on hunger strike while demanding immediate annulment of the execution order against this prisoner and...

An ordinary crime prisoner detained at Tabriz Central Prison sewed his lips. This political prisoner has been on hunger strike since Thursday, Nov 23, 2017, in protest to the verdict issued against him. According to reports received by Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN), Babak Jidari (a prisoner detained in ward 9 of Tabriz Central Prison) went on hunger strike by sewing his lips on Saturday,...