After an 80-day hunger strike, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee in response to her family and several civil activists’ insistence, broke her hunger strike.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on April 24th, 2018, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a political prisoner detained in Gharchack prison in Varamin, after 80 days of hunger strike, due to family members insistence and in response to the demands of more than thousand civil and Political activists and 28 human rights organizations and the promise of meeting her demands, ended her hunger strike. She is currently hospitalized outside the prison.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, who was sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of writing an unpublished narrative on the Stoning punishment, along with Atena Daemi, in protest to their transfer to the Gharchack prison in Varamin, beatings and vandalism by security forces, on February 3rd, 2018, in a letter announced their hunger strike. On February 10th, 2018, in protest to prison authority ignorance to their hunger strike, the two civil activists turned their hunger strike into a dry strike by refraining from drinking liquids. Atena ended her hunger strike on February 16th, 2018, and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, today April 24th, 2018, after 80 days.
Earlier, Amnesty International had strongly criticized the prison condition of Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi, the two civil rights activists in Iran and called for their urgent and unconditional release.
Gharchack(Qarchak) Prison or Varamin Gharchack Prison is one of the Iranian prisons for female prisoners with general crime.
This prison is located in deserts near the east of Tehran, where the geographical location of the prison makes it difficult for the family have prison visit with their detainees.