GILGAMISH – كلكامش
In order to condemn and change these policies, currently hundreds of Kurdish political-civil detainees have staged an “unlimited” hunger strike in Iranian prisons. Their lives are in great danger and they need urgent help!
The demands of the hunger strikers are:
1. Recognition of their political and civil identity.
2. Immediate cancellation of death sentences given to political and civil activists and remove the death penalty from the Iranian constitution.
3. To put an end to torture, ill treatment, persecution and inhuman treatment of the prisoners.
4. To eliminate the policies of national, religious and sexual discrimination. To stop the policy of sending detainees into exile and to improve the prison’s conditions.
5. The Iranian prison should be monitored by international and Iranian Human Rights Organizations.
6. The Iranian Judiciary system with all of its sub-institutions should be reviewed and reformed on the bases of human rights standards.
We appeal to all human rights organizations and institutions around the world, intellectuals and political democratic organizations to come to the rescue of the Kurdish hunger strikers in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and to condemn Iran for its oppressive policies against the political prisoners as well as its violation of human rights.
We call upon the international community, the United Nations, and the democratic countries all over the world to standup with the Kurdish and Iranian people in their march for freedom, democracy and peace.
Forty-one days have past since the detainees staged the “unlimited hunger strike” and their lives are in grave danger with each successive day.
Media and Communication Center,
Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK)
Names of Kurdish prisoner on Hunger strike in Iran Name conviction Arsalan wlyayi Political Activity Death Penalty Sanandaj Anwar HoseinPanahi Political Activity Death Penalty Sanandaj Habibullah Latifi Student activity Death Penalty Sanandaj Hana Abdi Woman’s rights activist 5 years and exile Sanandaj Runak Safazadeh Woman’s Rights activist unknown Sanandaj Loghman Mehri Political Activity 5 years Saghez Amir Hosseini Political Activity 1 year Saghez Reza Mohammadi Political Activity unknown Saghez Servat Azarniush Political Activity One and half years orumye 9 Yousef Atsaz Political Activity 7 month Orumye 10 Adel Ashiani Political Activity 7 month Orumye 11 Ali Ahmad Soleiman Political Activity 5 and half years Orumye 12 Ayoub Argin Bash Political activity Unknown Orumye 13 Bakhtyar Ashrafi kiya Political activity 11 years Orumye 14 Jahangir Baduzadeh Political Activity life imprisonment Orumye 15 Ehsan Tupuz Political Activity 13 years Orumye 16