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Iranian political prisoner on hunger strike for ten days and counting

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, August 20, 2020—Political prisoner Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi Hamedani is on hunger strike protesting the transfer of his son, Behnam Salar Sedighi Hamedani, to the Urmia Intelligence Detention Center in Urmia Central Prison in northwest Iran. Authorities are imposing severe pressure on Salar. Wednesday marked the tenth day of Ebrahim’s hunger strike, despite his numerous illnesses and severe physical condition.

Ebrahim, who is currently being held in quarantine at Urmia Central Prison, has been on a hunger strike since August 9, protesting the transfer and pressure of his young son, Behnam Salar.

He has diabetes and is currently suffering from severe physical weakness. Concerns about his son's fate forced him to go on a hunger strike.

Salar Sedighi Hamedani, who was transferred to the Urmia Intelligence Detention Center on August 4, is being interrogated and tortured.

Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) intelligence has filed a case against this political prisoner and he has been accused of having connections with foreign media.

Following protests by his family, Urmia Central Prison informed them that he is currently under interrogation and their investigation is ongoing. Therefore, he is not allowed to call or visit his family.

Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi Hamedani, along with his son Salar, was attacked and beaten by several of the prison dean's mercenaries on August 3, and then transferred to the prison’s quarantine section. Four days later, on August 7, the two were transferred to the Urmia Detention Intelligence Center and placed under interrogation. Ebrahim was returned to Urmia Central Prison, but his son Salar was held in Urmia Intelligence Detention Center and his current condition remains unknown.

On April 23, 2019, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) released the name of Ebrahim Khalil Sedighi and 27 other political prisoners who are under pressure and called for urgent action by the international community to save their lives.

On April 19, 2019, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, called on the Secretary-General of the United Nations, the High Commissioner and the Human Rights Council of the United Nations and international human rights organizations to take immediate action to release those detainees and to appoint delegations to visit the regime's prisons and to meet political prisoners.

Previously, Ebrahim and Salar had gone on hunger strike in September 2019 after being sentenced to 19 years in prison by the regime’s criminal judiciary system. The two have been sentenced under bogus charges of “measures against national security.”

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