NCRI – More than a dozen Iranian political prisoners in Gohardasht prison in the city of Karaj go on hunger strike on Saturday to express solidarity with women and girls who have been victims of acid attacks carried out by gangs affiliated to the Iranian regime.
The political prisoners said in a statement published on Friday: “For years, the heroic Iranian women have been under brazen and brutal suppression imposed by the regime. Facing lack of social independence, imposition of obligatory veil, and being deprived of education in many fields and hundreds of other privileges based on the constitution, are only small part of the violence being carried out against the Iranian women.”
During the past few weeks organized gangs affiliated to the Iranian regime throw acid onto at least 25 women and girls in cities of Isfahan, Kermanshah and Tehran.
One woman was killed and others suffered third-degree burns on their faces, necks, chests and hands, and will require cosmetic surgery. Some victims they lost their eye sight.
The attackers targeted women which they consider not properly dressed.
Following the attacks thousands of residents of Tehran and Isfahan took to the streets protesting the heinous crimes committed by the Iranian regime’s gangs.
Police attacked the protesters in Isfahan and arrested some 50 youths, according to the eyewitnesses.