Iranian Resistance demands UN action to save jailed political hunger striker

                    
                                     Shahrokh Zamani – Ghezel Hesar Prison 

NCRI - The Iranian Resistance has called on theUnited Nations and human rights groups to take urgent action to save the life of a critically ill labor activist on the 30th day of a hunger strike jailed for his opposition to the theocratic regime.
Shahrokh Zamani, 49, was arrested in June 2011 in city of Tabriz, north western Iran, and was sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges of ’propaganda against the system’ and creating an opposition group. 
Mr. Zamani was then transferred from Gohardasht prison to Ghezel Hesar prison, where dangerous prisoners are held, on March 8. 
In a message from Ghezel Hesar, Mr Zamani -  a member of Painters Union in Iran - had called for an international labour campaign against repression in Iran. 
He has been repeatedly tortured over the past two years, and moved between prisons in Yazd, Gohardasht, Tabriz and Ghezel Hesar.
A number of Gohardasht political prisoners also went on hunger strike on April 7 and 8 in solidarity with Mr. Zamani, calling for unconditional and immediate return of their former cell mate to Gohardasht prison. 
The Iranian Resistance calls on human rights organizations and the United Nations Rapporteur on torture, as well as labor and trade unions, for urgent action to address the tragic situation of political prisoners and labor activists in the mullahs’ regime medieval dungeons.