HRANA- Prominent student activist Majid Tavakoli has been transferred from ward 240 of Evin Prison to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.

Ali Tavakoli has informed HRANA that he has not been able to establish any communication with his brother. However, a prisoner from Rajai Shahr has seen Majid Tavakoli as he was being transferred.

In regards to his hunger strike, Majid Tavakoli’s brother stated that the prosecutor general reported to Majid’s lawyer in person after meeting with him that he had ended his hunger strike.

Seventeen political prisoners in Evin Prison started a hunger strike after being transferred to solitary confinement for protesting inhuman conditions and treatment in the prison. They continued their hunger strike for sixteen days while in solitary.

Majid Tavakoli was one of the prisoners on hunger strike. He was taken to the prison clinic on the fifteenth day because of his deteriorating condition.

Majid Tavakoli has been in detention since December 7, 2009 in Evin Prison and was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. In recent years exile to Rajai Shahr Prison has been used as a method to punish political prisoners.