Overview
- Her family’s Paris-based foundation says the strike began this week to challenge what it calls unlawful detention and dire prison conditions.
- Her lawyer reports she is held in solitary confinement in Mashhad with no reliable means of contact, with her last family call on December 14.
- She is seeking the right to make phone calls, meet lawyers in Iran, and receive visits, according to her legal team.
- Mohammadi was detained on December 12 in Mashhad during a memorial for lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, whose death activists have called suspicious.
- The foundation warns her known heart problems, high blood pressure, and other ailments make the hunger strike especially dangerous; Iranian authorities have not publicly commented.