Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has obtained information that Kurdish political prisoner Bashir Pirmawane has gone on hunger strike in protest to his request for conditional release. Meanwhile, another Kurdish political prisoner Siamak Ashrafi who went on hunger strike since January 21, is still on hunger strike.

Bashir Pirmawane had earlier gone on a hunger strike for a month on July 22 in protest to the refusal of authorities to grant him a conditional release and finally ended his hunger strike on August 28 following the promise of prison officials to take steps in this regard.
Despite the grant of conditional release by the Prison Classification Council and referring the application to the Enforcement Office of the Public and Revolutionary Court of Orumiyeh, Bashir Pirmawane has not received any response to his application during the past five months. Therefore, he has gone on a hunger strike again.
Bashir Pirmawane was arrested in March 2016 by security forces in Orumiyeh and sentenced to five years in prison on charges of collaboration with a Kurdish opposition party. The five-year imprisonment sentence was later reduced to four years per the law of ‘Submission to the Verdict”. 
KHRN has also been informed that “Siamak Ashrafi, who had been on hunger strike since January 21 in protest to the refusal of authorities to grant him a conditional release and his disrespectful treatment by the staff of Branch 9 of Enforcement Office of Orumiyeh Court, is still on hunger strike.

This political prisoner has spent about 3 years and 8 months of his 5-year and 8 months of his imprisonment sentence. He had submitted his request for conditional release to the Classification Council some time ago. The request was referred to Branch 9 of the Orumieh Court of Appeals upon the agreement of the Classification Council with his request.Siamak Afshari wrote a letter to the prison officials and announced his hunger strike when he was informed about the disrespectful behaviour of the staff at Branch 9 of the Enforcement Office towards his family who had referred to this office to make enquiries about the outcome of his application for conditional release.