KURDISTAN: Kurdish Prisoner Zeynab Bayazidi on Hunger Strike

Date:

Friday, July 9, 2010

Source:

Human Rights House of Iran

Countries:

Asia

Western Asia

Zeynab Bayazidi, former member of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, has gone on hunger strike in Zanjan prison.
According to Movakerian news agency, Bayadizi's mother has confirmed this news and said: “Zeynab has gone on hunger strike in protest to the inappropriate behavior of the chief of Zanjan Prison with a number of female prisoners.”
Zeynab Bayazidi is a former member of Kurdistan Human Rights Organization and the One Million Signatures Campaign, has been detained in Zanjan prison for nearly two years. The Revolutionary Court of Mahabad had sentenced her to 4 years imprisonment in Zanjan Central Prison.

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