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A number of women have gone on an unlimited hunger strike in Varamin’s Qarchak Prison and Tehran’s Central Fashafouyeh Prison. They are protesting their harsh treatment by security forces.<\/p>\nA number of women have gone on an unlimited hunger strike in Varamin’s Qarchak Prison and Tehran’s Central Fashafouyeh Prison. They are protesting their harsh treatment by security forces.<\/p>\n
Eleven of the women on hunger strike have been identified as Firouzeh Ranjbar, Afsoon Islami, Hanieh Mohseni Tabrizi, Massoumeh Salehi, Roghieh Karami, Helen Shahbazi, Laila Heydari, Zahra Moeinibakhsh, Mina Amir-Mo’ezzi, Sedigheh Khazraii, and Paniz Hedayati.<\/p>\n
These women have been arrested in the protests to the continued detention of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, founder of Cosmic Mysticism (Erfan-e Halgheh), who has completed his five-year prison term but prison authorities have refused to release him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"