Middle East
Student Activist in Solitary Confinement on Hunger Strike
To protest his conditions inside Babol s Matikola Prison, imprisoned student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarked on a hunger strike on 31 August. Zahabian s father, Hassan Zahabian, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that prison staff moved his son to solitary confinement after he began his hunger strike, even though, according to other prisoners, he was in a coma.
Six more Iranian prisoners join hunger strike
Six more Iranian political prisoners have joined 12 prisoners who are on a hunger strike to protest the recent deaths of two political prisoners. Kaleme reports that six prisoners at Rejai Shahr Prison in Karaj have announced they are lending their support to the dozen prisoners on strike at Evin Prison.