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Peyman Mirzazadeh, a Kurdish singer held at Urmia Prison in northwestern Iran, went on hunger strike on July 29, 2019 in protest to being sentenced to two years of prison and 100 lashes. His flogging sentence was carried out on July 28 and left him in agonizing pain with a severely swollen back and legs. … Continue reading Kurdish prisoner of conscience flogged 100 times for blasphemy