NCRI – A political prisoner in Iran, Behrouz Javid Tehrani, finished the 22nd day of his hunger strike, according to obtained reports on Tuesday, May 26. Tehrani’s physical condition has been deteriorating rapidly as a result. He is imprisoned in solitary confinement at Ward 1 of the Gohardasht prison in the Tehran suburb of Karaj.
Tehrani is the only remaining prisoner who was arrested during the July 1999 university uprisings in Iran. To voice protest over the suppressive actions of the Gohardasht prison’s torturers, Tehrani began a hunger strike on May 4, 2009.
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement on May 23 calling for attempts to save Tehrani’s life. The statement said in part: The Iranian regime is reportedly planning to repeat a scenario concerning Tehrani which it has already implemented with regards to two other political prisoners, Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi and Akbar Mohammadi, who died under suspicious circumstances after carrying out similar hunger strikes.