Female Kurdish political prisoner, Mojgan Kavousi ends her hunger strike after 10 days

Hengaw : Mojgan Kavousi, a Kurdish political prisoner in Tehran's Evin Prison, ended her hunger strike after 10 days.

According to a report received by Hengaw Human Rights Organization, on  Tuesday, May 25, 2021, Mojgan Kavousi, a Kurdish researcher and writer from Kelardasht, who had gone on a hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison, ended her strike after 10 days.  .

This political prisoner had been on a hunger strike since Sunday, May 16, in protest of the discriminatory approach of Evin Prison officials in granting leave to prisoners.

Mojgan Kavousi was arrested by the Iranian Intelligence services in Nowshahr district of Mazandaran Province on Monday, November 18, 2019, , during the protests, and was temporarily released on bail of 100 million Tomans ($5000) a month later.

In March 2020 , Kurdish writer and researcher, Mojgan Kavousi, from Kelardasht, was sentenced to 76 months and 15 days in prison. She was also sentenced to 69 months in prison in December 2019.

According to the verdict, Mojgan Kavousi was sentenced to 33 months in prison on charges of "membership in the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran", to 36 months  on charges of "disturbing public order" and 7 months and 15 days on charges of  "propaganda against the regime". According to the law of aggregation of these three sentences, the most severe sentence, ie a sentence of 36 months imprisonment, is enforceable.

Mojgan Kavousi was arrested on Monday, May 19, 2020 to serve her sentence, and was transferred from Nowshahr Central Prison in Mazandaran Province to Evin Prison in Tehran on Monday, June 2.2, 2020 and has been denied  to on a leave ever since.