A number of hunger strikers inside Joe Central Prison have temporarily suspended their strike after receiving promises from the prison administration to meet some of their demands, in terms of allowing isolated prisoners to integrate with the rest during Ashura ceremony for two hours, while the remaining demands will be fulfilled later, Human Rights Sources reported on Friday, September 6, 2019.
The reports revealed that the most prominent items of the draft agreement between representatives of the strikers and the Deputy Prisoners’ Affairs in the prison, under which the strike was suspended after 23 days, are: the integration of the isolated prisoners with the rest, enabling them the right to medical care, freedom to practice religious rites, improve living conditions in Imprisonment to match human coexistence and preservation of dignity, and to restore the system of visits twice a month.
The sources said that the suspension of the strike was not announced officially and definitively, especially since the promises were not fulfilled, thus waving prisoners to return to the hunger strike.
The Joe Prison Administration has not fulfilled its promise to these prisoners in allowing them to participate with the rest in Ashura ceremony. They were held on Thursday 5 September 2019 in their cells with the threat of punishment if they share the rest of the detainees in other cells in that ceremony.
