Political prisoner Vahid Bagheri who is currently jailed in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary is on the 19th day of hunger strike. Despite his poor health condition, the prison officials deny his basic demands.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, on Saturday, May 28, 2022, Political prisoner Vahid Bagheri is on the 19th day of his hunger strike in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary.
On May 10, 2022, Mr Bagheri went on hunger strike in protest against the prison official’s rejection of his request for an early release on probation despite the head of the Judiciary’s agreement.
Earlier, in an open letter, Vahid Bagheri had protested that he is the breadwinner of two families and was imprisoned only for attending a protest.
During the nationwide 2019–2020 Iranian protests known as the Aban Protests, the security forces arrested Bagheri and after a while transferred him from a detention facility to the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary.
Subsequently, branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Bagheri to six years in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the regime and assembly and collusion against national security”. Applying article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, of the two counts, five years in prison for the charge of “assembly and collusion” is enforceable.
