Saeed Shirzad was taken to hospital after 53 days of hunger strike

Saeed Shirzad, a political prisoner from Kermashan (Kermanshah) , was arrested at Tabriz refinery on June 12, 2014, and was transferred to Evin Prison and then to Rajai Shahr Prison. On the other hand, Saeed Shirzad from Karmashan(Kermanshah) also suffered from a loss 17kg of his weight after a 53-day hunger strike. this Kurdish and Yarsani prisoners have been on hunger strike since August 18 this year along with several other prisoners.

Human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad started a hunger strike on 31 March in protest at the authorities’ disregard for regulations governing separation of different categories of prisoners. Saeed Shirzad is held in Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj near Tehran, awaiting the outcome of his appeal against his five-year prison term.

The political prisoner Saeed Shirzad, 27, was arrested and held in Evin Prison’s ward 209 cells for two months without any communication with family and lawyer. He was then sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on the charges of “Assembly and collusion with the intention of acting against national security.” A few days ago in response to the requests by a number of relatives of political prisoners and those executed to end his hunger strike he wrote: “Let me continue this hunger strike and be the voice of imprisoned voiceless.”

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