Mostafa Mesri is on hunger strike in Urmiyeh prison

 Mostafa Mesri, the Kurdish political activist who is in Urmiyeh prison has begun a hunger strike with sewing his lips.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), he has begun this hunger strike because the authorities are not allowing him to be transferred to Naghadeh prison. The authorities of the prison have moved him to the solitary immediately after going on hunger strike.This political prisoner had written several letters to the authorities asking them to transfer him to Naghadeh prison, but there were no answer. He has been sentenced to 3 years and a half of prison on charge of acting against national security in 2011.