KURDISH PRISONERS MOHMMAD KABOODVAND AND HOSSEIN MALEKI ON HUNGER STRIKE IN IRAN

Human rights activist Mohmmad Seddigh Kaboodvand was transferred to the Evin Prison infirmary on the tenth day of his hunger strike against his unfair detention by the Iranian government. Kaboodvand began his hunger strike on May 26th after he was denied a furlough in order to visit his sick son, and he announced that he would continue to strike until he was allowed to see his child.

Kaboodband was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to eleven years in prison for his documentation and reporting of Iranian human rights violations against the Kurds. He established the Kurdistan Defence of Human Rights Organization in 2005 and published the weekly Payam-e Mardom, which were enough for the Iranian government to charge him with “acting against national security” and “propaganda against the Islamic Republic”.