HRANA News Agency – Hafez Forouhi, a political prisoner in Lakan Prison, Rasht, has entered the fourth day of his hunger strike. On the morning of Thursday, January 30, he was transferred to the prison’s infirmary in poor physical condition due to a drop in blood pressure and blood sugar.

A source close to his family confirmed the news to HRANA, stating: “Mr. Forouhi’s health deteriorated on the fourth day of his hunger strike, and he was taken to Lakan Prison’s infirmary after experiencing a sharp drop in blood pressure and blood sugar.”

Forouhi began his hunger strike on Monday, January 27, in protest of what he describes as an unjust legal process, violations of his legal rights, the issuance of separate sentences for a single case, the failure to apply sentence reduction laws, and authorities’ refusal to consider his legal requests for case consolidation.

Approximately 29 years old, Forouhi was arrested by security forces in Rasht on January 18, 2023, and transferred to Lakan Prison’s Misagh ward the following day.

Late last year, Forouhi, along with Mehdi Mirzaei and Arman Sedghi Sabet, co-defendants in a joint case, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Rasht Revolutionary Court on charges of “propaganda against the regime” and “acting against national security.” Their sentences were later upheld by the Gilan Court of Appeals. Under Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, the longest sentence—two years—became enforceable.

In a separate case, Forouhi was sentenced to two years and three months in prison by Branch 1 of the Rasht Criminal Court.