MAHABAD, Iranian Kurdistan,— Zeynab Bayazidi, former member of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization, has gone on hunger strike in Zanjan prison.

According to Movakerian news agency, Bayadizi‌s mother has confirmed this news and said: “Zeynab has gone on hunger strike in protest to the inappropriate behavior of the chief of Zanjan Prison with a number of female prisoners.”

Zeynab Bayazidi is a former member of Kurdistan Human Rights Organization and the One Million Signatures Campaign,www.ekurd.nethas been detained in Zanjan prison for nearly two years. The Revolutionary Court of Mahabad had sentenced her to 4 years imprisonment in Zanjan Central Prison.

Kaboudvan in critical condition in Evin Prison in Tehran

On July 15, 2010 Muhamad Sediq Kaboudvan, the founder and head of Human Rights Organisation of Kurdistan in Iran, was taken to the medical facility at Evin Prison after he passed out in section 350 of this prison. Kaboudvan's family became aware of his critical condition after one of his inmates called them.

Kaboudvand is currently serving 11 years prison term in Evin prison in Iran for his human rights activities and publishing a book on rights of women in Iran. He has served one third of his time in prison and according to Iranian law, he must be allowed to visit his family outside prison for limited period but his requests have been blocked repeatedly.

He has had two heart attacks while in prison and has lost considerable weight according to members of his family who have managed to visit him from behind bars in Evin prison.

Kaboudvand was awarded two important international awards in 2009. He was recognised as International Journalist of the Year by Press Gazette in Britain. He was also awarded the prestigious Hellman-Hammett Grant by Human Rights Watch.

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