After two weeks, two Kurdish cultural activists are still on hunger strike
14:29 - 24 August 2018
Kurdistan Press Agency (Kurdpa): Two Kurdish cultural activists imprisoned in Dizelabad Prison in Kirmashan (Kermanshah) are still on hunger strike.
According to Kurdpa reporters on the ground, Mostafa Bagheri Ashena, an engineer, from Kangawar who is a member of Kirmanshan Engineering System and Said Ardashir Moosavi, a political science scholar from Kirmashan are still on hunger strike in the third section of Dizelabad Prison.
Both of them went on hunger strike on Wednesday, August 8 to complain against ‘their deprivation of their legal rights and their access to medical service’.
After going on hunger strike, both Mostafa and Said Ardashir have faced health problems such as severe weight loss and low blood pressure. The Dizelabad Prison authorities haven’t yet done anything to handle their demands.
The Prosecute General of Kirmanshah hasn’t agreed to change their imprisonment verdict to release on bail.
On July 5, Mostafa Bagheri Ashena, an engineer, from Kangawar who is a member of Kirmanshan Engineering System, Said Ardashir Moosavi, a political science scholar from Kirmashan, Mehdi Azadbakht, a photographer from Lorestan, Bijan Hemmati, an engineer from Kirmanshan and Shahriyar Tahmasoni, a sociological expert from Kirmanshan who all of them were responsible for holding a festival called Khwendawaran were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence forces.
Following their arrest, the Iranian Intelligence forces in provinces like Kirmanshan and Ilam have constantly been summoning Kurdish cultural activists working in those provinces. According to reliable sources, in a few cases, the Iranian Intelligence forces have confiscated those activists’ mobile phones and private computers.
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According to Kurdpa reporters on the ground, Mostafa Bagheri Ashena, an engineer, from Kangawar who is a member of Kirmanshan Engineering System and Said Ardashir Moosavi, a political science scholar from Kirmashan are still on hunger strike in the third section of Dizelabad Prison.
Both of them went on hunger strike on Wednesday, August 8 to complain against ‘their deprivation of their legal rights and their access to medical service’.
After going on hunger strike, both Mostafa and Said Ardashir have faced health problems such as severe weight loss and low blood pressure. The Dizelabad Prison authorities haven’t yet done anything to handle their demands.
The Prosecute General of Kirmanshah hasn’t agreed to change their imprisonment verdict to release on bail.
On July 5, Mostafa Bagheri Ashena, an engineer, from Kangawar who is a member of Kirmanshan Engineering System, Said Ardashir Moosavi, a political science scholar from Kirmashan, Mehdi Azadbakht, a photographer from Lorestan, Bijan Hemmati, an engineer from Kirmanshan and Shahriyar Tahmasoni, a sociological expert from Kirmanshan who all of them were responsible for holding a festival called Khwendawaran were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)’s Intelligence forces.
Following their arrest, the Iranian Intelligence forces in provinces like Kirmanshan and Ilam have constantly been summoning Kurdish cultural activists working in those provinces. According to reliable sources, in a few cases, the Iranian Intelligence forces have confiscated those activists’ mobile phones and private computers.
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