Death row prisoner Zeinab Sakavand, who is detained in Orumieh Prison, started a hunger strike on Saturday January 6 in protest to being banned from seeing her husband and pressures by Orumieh Prison officials. She has been charged with murder.
Female Death Row Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike
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