Sixth day of Sepideh Qolyan's hunger strike; this civil activist has suffered from "motor disability"
As the sixth day of the hunger strike of civil rights activist Sepideh Qolyan, who is imprisoned in Iran, continues, the wounds indicate that the prisoner is extremely weak, to the point that she is unable to move without a wheelchair.
The Campaign to Support Haft Tappeh Detainees, in a report on Sunday, August 26, referring to civil activist Sepideh Gholian, who has been on a hunger strike since the beginning of August, wrote that "Sepideh Gholian is under pressure from the prison warden and the assistant prosecutor supervising the prison to break her hunger strike, while no action has been taken to investigate her demands."
According to the report, Ms. Qolyan has "not eaten or drank any food or water for six days, and since the second day of her hunger strike, she has been experiencing severe weakness and lethargy, and the severity of this weakness is so severe that she is unable to move on her own and uses a wheelchair."
Previously, Mehdi Gholian, the brother of imprisoned civil activist Sepideh Gholian, had announced on Friday, July 25, that Ms. Gholian had been taken to the prison infirmary unconscious on the fourth day of her hunger strike due to a digestive disorder and a severe drop in blood pressure.
He also reported the "inappropriate and insulting treatment of the prison nurse" towards the imprisoned civil activist.
He will go on a hunger strike to protest the insults inflicted on his family by Qarchak Prison officials and to express his support for Amir Hossein Mohammadifard and Sanaz Allahyari.
Sepideh Gholian was arrested in November last year during protests by workers at the Haft Tappeh Sugar Company along with imprisoned labor activist Esmaeil Bakhshi. After their release, the two announced that they were tortured during their detention and had made a "forced confession" under pressure. Ms. Gholian and Esmaeil Bakhshi were arrested for the second time in early February after these statements.
Previously, the Persian account of the US State Department criticized the arrest of Iranian labor activists on International Labor Day (May 1) in a tweet, writing, "The Islamic Republic regime could have paid the salaries of workers in Iran with the money it spent in Syria."
Source: Voice of America
