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MEK POLITICAL PRISONERS ON HUNGER STRIKE Two political prisoners in Iran, who are supporters of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK), have been on a hunger strike since October 17 over the poor living condition in prison. Mehdi Farahi Shandiz and Mohammad Riazat,  MEK  supporters who protested the lack of facilities and warm water in the central prison of Karaj, were relocated to solitary confinement the day after their hunger strike began, according to the Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners. Riazat was arrested following the widespread anti-regime protests organized by the MEK last August before being temporarily released on bail. He was then sentenced to three years in jail on charges of “insulting the Founder and Supreme Leader” and “propaganda against the regime” by Judge Mehdi Zeinali of the criminal revolutionary court. Riazat was transferred to Karaj’s Central Penitentiary on December 10. Shandiz, w...

Two Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Protest Against Medieval Rulings of Mullahs’ Judiciary in Orumiyeh Published on  04 October 2019 . Messrs Ebrahim Sadeqi Hamedani, 60 years old, and his 22-year-old son, Salar Sadeqi Hamedani, went on hunger strike in protest to inhuman treatment and medieval sentences of the mullahs’ regime against them since September 25, 2019. In its statement of April 23, 2019, the Secretariat of  the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)  had reported their arrest. The mullahs’ judiciary under Ebrahim Raisi, the ruthless chief justice, sentenced each of the two political prisoners arrested in March 2019 to a 16-year prison term. They were accused of “membership in  the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) ” and “propaganda against the regime.” On their 9 th  day of hunger strike, they demand to be transferred to Tehran. On April 19, 2019, Mahmoud Alavi, the mullahs’ regime’s Minister of Intelligence and S...

Iranian political prisoners on hunger strike Political prisoners in Iran, with their rights constantly violated, see no choice but resorting to hunger strike Iran, Aug. 13, 2019  - The hunger strike of four Iranian political prisoners in Urmia prison in northwest Iran continues. The names of the hunger strikers are Mostafa Sabzi, Ghader Salimi, Bashir Pirmavaneh and Rahmi Tourgout. Reports indicate that the health conditions of these political prisoners are deteriorating and they are suffering from severely low blood pressure and significant weight loss. Bashir Pirmavaneh and Rahmi Tourgout started their hunger strike on July 22, Mostafa Sabzi and Ghader Salimi started theirs on July 23. Hunger strike by Akbar Bagheri, political prisoner, and supporter of MEK in the Prison of Greater Tehran Akbar Bagheri, a political prisoner, and supporter of the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ), incarcerated in the Greater Tehra...

Iranians hold more than 260 protests in July   by   Adena Nima _05 Aug 2019 According to reports collected in July, there were 267 Iran protests in 78 cities, villages and industrial regions with an average of nine protests per day. Workers Workers staged 130 Iran protests in July in 41 cities, commercial areas and industrial towns with an average of four protests per day. The gatherings were mostly in protest to delayed paychecks, lack of job security, dismissal of workers, the non-renewal of workers’ contract, privatization and low wages. Gatherings by workers of oil refineries in various cities  most important worker's protests which lasted several days were as follows: workers of the Fasa sugar cube company Gathering by workers of the Fasa sugar cube company in southwestern Iran Gathering by workers of the Damash Mineral Water Company in northern Iran Gathering by railroad workers in several cities including Neishapour...