Prisoners of Quarantine of Zahedan Prison on Hunger Strike

HRANA News Agency – Quarantine prisoners of Zahedan prison are on a hunger strike to protest at the lack of adequate food, as well as many other problems. Prisoners say, “We are treated like animals.”
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), poor conditions and lack of adequate food and starved prisoners in Zahedan prison has been to the extent that the quarantine prisoners has begun a hunger strike and other prisoners are asking for help from the wider international community because of numerous grievances.
Several sources get in touch with us who announced the news and said, “The lack of food and too low quality of the same food on the one hand and the lack of financial capacity on the other hand and higher food prices in the prison has caused many prisoners stay hungry in Zahedan prison.”
According to the prisoners, many of whom are from Pakistan and Afghanistan in their protest against the prison authorities have received only one response: “This is Iran and the government does not have enough funds for you and we do not have any answer for you.”
According to one of our sources, the situation is even worse in the quarantine section of the prison: “prisoners inside the quarantine suffer from severe malnutrition. Because there is no possibility of purchasing food from store even if you have the financial capability and prisoners are kept in these section for a long time. The number of quarantined prisoners have been about forty people, they all have become very weak due to hunger strike. The names of two of them are “Rouhollah Nari” and “Mohamad Omar Kharouj Baravi”.
Prisoners are being beaten brutally: “We are treated like animals.”
One of the prisoners who recently has been beaten brutally several times is “Mohammad Qandaraki Sultani”. According to our sources, this prisoner was beaten so much that he could not walk up for two and a half months.

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