NCRI – Political prisoner Asghar Mahmoudian has gone on hunger strike in Iran’s Semnan prison in protest at being denied medical treatment.
Mr Mahmoudian was arrested along with his wife on February 14, 2010, and sentenced to six years imprisonment and his wife to five years. He was also a political prisoner in the 1980s and spent 10 years in prison. One of his family members has also been executed by the regime.
Meanwhile, family and friends of Sohrab Aarabi, who was killed during the 2009 uprising, gathered at his cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of his death, paying tributes and laying flowers.
They will gather again on July 13 to commemorate the fourth anniversary of his funeral.