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iran-hrm – More than 700 prisoners have gone on hunger strike protesting inhuman treatment of prisoners by the warden and degrading conditions they have been forced to endure in Urmia Central Prison.
They started the mass hunger strike on Wednesday, after a prisoner committed suicide. Mohammad Ahoupa, serving 8 years of his 25-year sentence for drug-related charges, had been denied furlough to see his family.
Situation in the prison particularly at ward 15 is reported tense as the prisoners angry over the harsh prison conditions, chanted slogans against the warden.
