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Iranwire – Four protesters incarcerated in the western Iranian province of Ilam have reportedly gone on a hunger strike and resorted to sewing their lips shut to protest their dire conditions of detention.
Vahid Chavaran, Naser Rezaei, Mohammad Hossein Haseli and Bakhtiar Mohammadzadeh initiated their hunger strike on September 3 and sewed their lips together the next day, according to the Norway-based Hengaw group, which monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions.
It said Chavaran was in critical health condition due to the “persistent administration of nerve agents” in the detention center.
All four prisoners were arrested this summer amid an intensifying crackdown on dissent ahead of the first anniversary of the start of nationwide protests sparked by Masha Amini’s death in police custody.
