HUMAN RIGHTS: Exiles in Europe Support Political Prisoners’ Hunger Strike

July 26, 2004 - The statement issued by the 12 political prisoners who ended their hunger strike on Sunday after 21 days shows that their strike was political and achieved its goals, spokesman of the Stockholm-based committee for defense of political prisoners in Iran Mehrdad Darvishpour tells Radio Farda’s Stockholm correspondent Elaheh Ravanshad As the 12 political prisoners in the Evin prison ended their hunger strike after 21 days, a group of Iranian exiles in Vienna said they will go on hunger strike to show their solidarity with political prisoners in Iran, activist Ayandeh Azad tells Radio Farda’s Vienna correspondent Kianouche Faried. The strikers are from Austria, as well as Canada, the US, Germany and Denmark.