Women prisoners in Iran writes letter in support of hunger strikers
Women prisoners in Iran writes letter in support of hunger strikers
Seventeen political prisoners of Evin prison have gone on hunger strike since Monday July 26, and are on harsh physical conditions on the 14th day of their hunger strike. That is while Majid Tavakoli, Keyvan Samimi and Bahman Ahmadi-Amouei have gone on dry hunger strike since August 4.
These 17 prisoners are stile on hunger strike while the judiciary officials abstain from providing any response or notice about their conditions, and this issue has raised serious concern for their families and human rights advocates.
Meanwhile, families of these political prisoners have been banned from giving interviews and following up the conditions of their loved on. Being incommunicado about their status as well their harsh conditions have also raised protests from female prisoners in the public ward of Evin prison These female prisoners have issued a letter, a copy of which was sent to RAHANA, and called for prison officials’ attention to the demands of these 17 prisoners and returning them to the normal condition and the public ward. This letter reads as follows:
“Why should 16 prisoners of Evin prison spend their time being confined in solitary like the first days of their detention and go on wet and dry hunger strike?
Is it logistically impossible for prison administration to fulfill their demands? Are prisoner officers unable to provide them with phone contacts, face-to-face prison visits with their families, or provide medical and hygiene facilities which are among the basic rights of every prisoner?
Or are these the casual manners of running prisons which tend to somehow suppress and subjugate prisoners?
Considering the inhumane conditions in which these prisoners are confined, we, female prisoners of the public ward of Evin prison, support the rightful demands of our friends confined in ward 350, express our objections to the current situation and call on their immediate return to to the normal condition.”
These 17 prisoners are stile on hunger strike while the judiciary officials abstain from providing any response or notice about their conditions, and this issue has raised serious concern for their families and human rights advocates.
Meanwhile, families of these political prisoners have been banned from giving interviews and following up the conditions of their loved on. Being incommunicado about their status as well their harsh conditions have also raised protests from female prisoners in the public ward of Evin prison These female prisoners have issued a letter, a copy of which was sent to RAHANA, and called for prison officials’ attention to the demands of these 17 prisoners and returning them to the normal condition and the public ward. This letter reads as follows:
“Why should 16 prisoners of Evin prison spend their time being confined in solitary like the first days of their detention and go on wet and dry hunger strike?
Is it logistically impossible for prison administration to fulfill their demands? Are prisoner officers unable to provide them with phone contacts, face-to-face prison visits with their families, or provide medical and hygiene facilities which are among the basic rights of every prisoner?
Or are these the casual manners of running prisons which tend to somehow suppress and subjugate prisoners?
Considering the inhumane conditions in which these prisoners are confined, we, female prisoners of the public ward of Evin prison, support the rightful demands of our friends confined in ward 350, express our objections to the current situation and call on their immediate return to to the normal condition.”
