Kamal Sharifi Deprived of Having Prison Visits

HRANA News Agency – Kamal Sharifi, journalist and political activist in Minab prison is in his eighth year of imprisonment being deprived of furlough during all these years, and being able to visit his family just for once.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Kamal Sharifi, journalist and political activist, born in October 1972, is spending his 30 years imprisonment sentence in exile, in Minab prison, while he has been able to visit his parents just once and after a long hunger strike.

One of his relatives, in an interview with HRANA said that Shayegh, the judge of Saghez Revolutionary Court, had issued thirty years imprisonment without visit for Kamal Sharifi.

Kamal Sharifi was arrested in 1998 in the city of Saghez, and in Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Shayegh, was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.

In 2008, he went on a long-term hunger strike in prison to protest his condition in Minab prison. After the hunger strike Kamal Sharifi was experiencing gastrointestinal problems and prison infirmary did nothing for his treatment.

Kamal Sharifi, who is held in Minab prison along with criminal prisoners, was arrested in 1989 and 1990 on several occasions with charges of supporting and working for the Kurdistan Democratic Party, and eventually in the Revolutionary Court, in Saghez, was sentenced to one year of imprisonment and 40 lashes.