Fasting Brings Hopeful Results

Kurdish News Human Rights Watch
Article 895
February 4, 2007
Bokan- Simko Kaderpour fasted successfully in protest of his sentence for eleven days, after which the court agreed to reopen his case and re-examine the charges. Mr. Kaderpour had been imprisoned for the past three years for participation in Kurdish political activities. The court had previously sentenced him to a total of eleven years before it agreed to reopen the case.