Iran prisoner hunger strike spreading despite pleas to end

Six prisoners in Iran's notorious Rejaei Shahr prison in Karan have been added to the list, according to a report from BBC Farsi today, bringing the total to 25 at the time of posting this update.

1. Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Senior member of Democratic Front of Iran party and former editor of banned student news publication.
2. Isa Saharkhiz, Columnist for the reformist news Web sites Rooz Online and Norooz and a founding member of the Association of Iranian ‎Journalists
3. Masoud Bastani, Journalist for the reformist newspaper Farihikhtegan and Jomhoriyat
4. Jafar Eghdami, Human Rights activist
5. Ali Ajami, Tehran University law leftist student and editor in chief of a student publication. Member of the Students for Freedom & Equality.
6. Keyvan Samimi, a political prisoner under the previous regime and former Editor in Chief of a banned monthly magazine, member of the Civil Rights Protection Committee, Committee to Follow-up on Arbitrary Arrests and the Education Rights Committee.

The 19 identified yesterday are: 

1 Dr Mohammad Ali Taheri , physician & alternative health practitioner who began his hunger strike in protest at unfair treatment and conditions after being detained on or around 12 May 2011

Three Kurdish political prisoners who began a hunger strike on or shortly after 1st June 2011 to protest being transferred to Rejaei Shahr prison in Karaj and illegally housed with the general prison population

2 Alnor Khaziri, 

3 Kamran Shakhi and 

4 Seyed Ebrahim Seyedi

Three Evin prisoners who began their strike on 5 June 2011 with Hoda Saber to protest prison conditions, and were supposed to end it on 12 June 2011, but decided to continue after his death: 

5 Mehdi Khodaie, a human rights activist and the former secretary of the city of Rey’s Islamic Student Union in Azad University; 

6 Arash Sadeghi, a member of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s 2009 presidential campaign and a member of the Central Council of Allameh Tabatabai University’s Islamic Student Union; and 

7 Ahmad Shah Rezaie, undergraduate student of Architecture

Twelve prisoner who began a hunger strike on 12 June 2011 to protest the deaths of former prisoner Saleh Sahabi & hunger striker Hoda Saber

8 Emad Behavar (head of the Freedom Movement’s Youth Branch); 

9 Ghorban Behzadian Nejad (advisor for Mir Hossein Mousavi); 

10 Bahman Ahmadi Amoui (journalist); 

11 Abdollah Momeni (Central Council of the alumni association Tahkim-e Vahdat Alumni Association); 

12 Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi (Central Council of the alumni association Tahkim-e Vahdat Alumni Association); 

13 Amir Khosrow Dalirsani (Nationalist-Religious Coalition); 

14 Abolfazl Ghadyani (Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution Organization); 

15 Feizollah Arabsorkhi (Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution Organization); 

16 Mohammad Reza Moghisseh (journalist and member of the Mousavi/Karroubi post-election fact-finding committee); 

17 Mohammad Davari (Chief Editor of Saham News); 

18 Former Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzadeh; (replaced Mohammad Javad Mozaffar, released on temporary leave 21 June 2011)

19 Mehdi Eghbal (Islamic Iran Participation Front) (replaced Emad Baghi, released on completion of sentence 21 June 2011)

 

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