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Tag : hunger strike

April 12, 2018

Teachers’ Rights Advocate Writes Scathing Letter From Prison on Revolutionary Iran’s Failed Promises

Esmail Abdi Warns Judiciary of the Consequences of Its “Illegal Rulings” Ahead of Hunger Strike Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi has ...

April 10, 2018

Iranian Political Prisoner Urges “Contentious People” To Be the Voice of His Imprisoned Wife

Authorities Ignore Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi’s Life-Endangering Hunger Strike Imprisoned civil rights activist Arash Sadeghi has urged ...

March 16, 2018

Blogger Arrested Amid Iran’s December 2017 Protests Vows to Hunger Strike Until Freedom or Death

Agents Threaten to Arrest Wife For Speaking Out About Peyman Roshanzamir’s Case A blogger who never served a previous prison sentence on the condition ...

March 5, 2018

Political Prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Subjected to Inhumane Living Conditions as Punishment For Hunger Strike

Inmates in the ward for political prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison continue to be punished seven months after many of them went on hunger strike to protest their forced move to a high-security ward. Prison officials have denied ...

February 15, 2018

Mother of Ailing Hunger Striker Atena Daemi Assaulted in Front of Evin Prison

  Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in Tehran ...

December 24, 2017

Epileptic Inmate Alireza Golipour to Resume Life-Endangering Hunger Strike in Evin Prison

Prisoner Alireza Golipour, who suffers from epilepsy, has threatened to go on a life-threatening hunger strike again if judicial authorities do not carry out their promise to review his ...

December 22, 2017

Political Prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison Denied Basic Rights Including Heat in Cold Winter Months

“All they want to do is harass the political prisoners.” The authorities of Rajaee Shahr Prison are keeping ...

November 16, 2017

Seven Doctors Disagree With Prison Authorities’ Decision to Keep Alireza Golipour Incarcerated

Medical Staff Refuse to Treat Golipour, Saying He’s Close to Falling Into a Coma Alireza Golipour has been deemed unfit ...

October 30, 2017

Hundreds of Iranian Rights Activists Call on Political Prisoner Mohammad Nazari to End Hunger Strike

Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned since 1994. More than 700 ...

October 20, 2017

“Help Me Gain the Freedom I am Legally Entitled To,” Pleads Hunger-Striking Political Prisoner

Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned in Iran since 1994 for his membership in a separatist group. ...

September 28, 2017

Iranian Bus Drivers and Activists Express Solidarity with Imprisoned Labor Activist Reza Shahabi

Update:  With assurances from a senior official, labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on September 27, 2017, after nearly two months of refusing food. “Reza announced the end of his hunger strike when a senior ...

September 12, 2017

Iranian Union Considers Mass Strike as Imprisoned Labor Activist’s Condition Deteriorates

An Iranian union is considering a mass strike to protest a prominent labor activist being returned to prison to ...

September 9, 2017

Authorities Ignore Starving Political Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison, Restrict Family Visitations

Former Political Prisoners Implore Judiciary To Consider Prisoners’ Demands Forty days after more than 15 political prisoners went on a ...

September 1, 2017

Imprisoned Labor Activist on Hunger Strike Needs Hospital Treatment, Wife Says

Reza Shahabi and his wife in their home grocery ...

August 31, 2017

Cartoon 173: Hunger Strike in Iran

Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani depicts hunger strikes undertaken by political prisoners in Iran in a desperate attempt to make their demands heard....

August 22, 2017

Judiciary Contradicts Rouhani Officials’ Promise to Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has publicly rejected a report that security agents will leave ...

August 18, 2017

Labor Activist Forced to Stay Behind Bars Until December 2018 Despite Completing Sentence

Update: With assurances from a senior official, labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on September 27, 2017, after nearly two months ...

August 18, 2017

Countdown Begins for Karroubi’s Trial After Deal With Rouhani Government Ends His Hunger Strike

Now that detained political leader Mehdi Karroubi has ended his life-threatening hunger strike, all eyes are on President Hassan Rouhani to see if ...

August 4, 2017

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

Soheil Arabi with his wife and daughter. Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, serving a seven-year prison sentence ...

July 12, 2017

Political Prisoner Ali Shariati Tricked Into Ending Hunger Strike With False Promise by Judiciary

Imprisoned civil rights activist Ali Shariati has been denied conditional release despite an earlier promise by judicial officials issued in exchange for him ending his hunger strike ...

June 7, 2017

Political Activist Detained Without Charge Subjected to “Illegal” Interrogations in Evin Prison

Ailing political activist Hengameh Shahidi, who has been on hunger strike in Evin Prison since March 16, 2017 to protest her detention without charge, is being subjected to renewed interrogations by security agents ...

June 6, 2017

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Activist Returned to Evin Prison After Three-Day Hospitalization

Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi, who has been on hunger strike for more than 30 days, was transported from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran on June 3, 2017 ...

June 3, 2017

Appeals Court Strikes Down Additional Charges by IRGC Against Imprisoned Rights Activist Atena Daemi

Imprisoned children’s rights activist Atena Daemi ended her hunger strike after she and her sisters were acquitted of additional charges brought by the IRGC that resulted in additional time added onto her seven-year prison sentence ...

May 1, 2017

Political Prisoner Atena Daemi’s Health Worsens Four Weeks Into Hunger Strike Without Proper Care

Atena Daemi, a human rights activist serving a seven-year prison sentence for her ...

April 18, 2017

“Be My Daughter’s Voice,” Pleads Mother of Hunger-Striking Activist Serving Seven Years

Imprisoned children and human rights activist Atena Daemi has been stricken with ...

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