Solmaz Hassanzadeh, the sister of Mohammad Hassanzadeh, one of the victims of the 2022 nationwide protests in Bukan, has been released from Urmia prison after an eight-day hunger strike.
According to Kolbarnews, on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, Solmaz Hassanzadeh was released on temporary bail of 500 million tomans, pending the completion of legal proceedings, after being detained for fourteen days. It is noteworthy that she was on a hunger strike for eight days during her detention.
On July 31, 2024, Solmaz Hassanzadeh and her father were detained by security forces while attempting to hold a ceremony commemorating her brother Mohammad’s birthday, who was killed during the 2022 protests. A day later, her father, Ahmad Hassanzadeh, was released on four billion tomans bail, but Solmaz was transferred to Urmia prison.
On Sunday, August 11, 2024, both Ahmad Hassanzadeh and Dayeh Azimeh, Solmaz’s parents, were summoned and threatened by the Bukan Intelligence Office. They were warned that “this time it will not be as easy as before, and you will not escape easily.”
Previously, on September 5, 2023, Solmaz Hassanzadeh was summoned and interrogated by the Bukan Intelligence Office. She had been arrested at a checkpoint on the Bukan-Saqqez road on September 27 of the previous year and was later released.
It is important to note that Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a 28-year-old resident of Bukan, was shot and killed on November 16, 2022, during the nationwide protests.
