According to the last received news from Orumieh Prison, a number of Kurdish political prisoners who have staged hunger strike are in critical condition.

These prisoners who are numbered 17 have been transferred to solitary confinement after close to 40 days of their hunger strike. They ask for halt of torture and brutal treatment of the clerical regime’s executioners and dismissal of imprisonment and execution verdicts of political prisoners.

The prison officials have pressed these prisoners to break their hunger strike but they have continued their resistance. The prisoners also demand visit of international organizations of human rights and ICRC from the Iranians’ jails.