A Christian man is on hunger strike in Abel-Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz to protest the rejection of his conditional release appeal by the mullahs’ judiciary.
Vahid Hakkani was sentenced in June last year to 44 months imprisonment for “attending a house-church, spreading Christianity, having contact with foreign ministries” as well as “propaganda against the system” and “disrupting national security.”
He began his hunger strike on March 20 and his health is deteriorating.
Hundreds of other followers of minority faiths including at least 49 Christians are imprisoned in Iran, according to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
Iranian Christians say Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime’s president, has failed to improve religious rights in Iran.
