10/2/2017 6:34:54 PM
Remember the 1998 Massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran”
BY SOONA SAMSAMI
The Hill, October 2, 2017 - For 40 days, 22 political prisoners staged a hunger strike in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, 30 miles west of the Iranian capital of Tehran. Most are serving sentences for dubious political charges. In dire circumstances, they were only demanding their return back to bad conditions.
Their health deteriorated; international intervention was literally non-existent, limited to a few expressions of concern, but no practical measures to compel the Iranian regime to stop its inhumane treatment of prisoners of conscience.
