Arjang Davudi goes on hunger strike !

According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davudi has gone on a hunger strike in protest to being transferred to a solitary cell in section 1 of Gohardasht Prison known as the 'dog house' and being deprived his medication.

Davudi was suddenly summoned on February 10 from section 4 in this prison by Kermani, the head of prison and Faraji, the deputy head of the Prison Intelligence Department and was then transferred to a solitary cell in section 1. He has been denied his medication since his transfer which can have dangerous consequences for this political prisoner.

Mansour Osalu, the head of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Syndicate, has been kept in solitary in section 5 of this prison from February 6 despite his heart problem and there has been no information on his condition since then. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Feb. 15, 2010)