Kurdish political prisoners in Iran ended a 33-day hunger strike

Kurdish political prisoners in Iran ended a 33-day hunger strike.
URMIYÊ, Iranian Kurdistan,— Kurdish political prisoners jailed in Iranian Kurdistan (Rojhelat) have ended a 33-day hunger strike after the regime caved in to their demands, NCR-Iran reported.

The inmates in Urmiyê (Orumiye) prison had been protesting at the authorities attempt to dissolve the political prisoners wing and by transfering them to cell-blocks with ordinary convicts.

The prison authorities had also threatened inmates and their families with expediting the execution of political prisoners if they continued their hunger strike.

The regime caved in to their demands after a widespread strike was staged in a number of Kurdish towns and cities in Iran.

During the hunger strike, Amnesty International had also issued a statement condemning Iran's threats to the prisoners as ‘deplorable.’
Amnesty's Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui had said: "It is truly deplorable that the Iranian authorities are playing games with the lives of these men in such a manner. Resorting to death threats and other punitive measures to quell prisoners’ hunger strikes only serves to underscore how rotten Iran’s criminal justice system is."

In the cities of Saqez, Sanandaj, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr and Ravnsar and Mahbad in Kurdistan province, merchantswww.Ekurd.net and shopkeepers stopped trading in support of the prisoners’ demands, defying threats of fines and breaking shops locks to re-open them by state police.

Since the hunger strike began, the National Council of Resistance of Iran had also issued calls for international support for the prisoners demands and urged them to take effective measures to save the lives of striking prisoners whose health had deteriorated.

The names of the prisoners: Ali Afshari, Jafar Afshari, but Afshari, Habib Afshari, Keyhan Darvishi, Shirkoo Hassanpour, Mohammad Abdullahi, Khazar Rasoolyrad, Saman Naseem, Amir Moladost, Sirwan Nezhavi, Jafar Mirzayi, Ebrahim Rezapour , Mohammad abdulbakht, Abdullah Asghari, Abdulrahman Sulaiman, Seyd Sami Hosseini, Abdullah Hammoudi, Ahmad Tamoei, Osman Mostafapour, Behrooz Alkhani, Mostafa Al-Rahman, Yousef Ka’kahmami, Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, Alireza Rasooli, Shoresh Afshari, Mostafa Davoodi.
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