# Invitation to -FreeSoheil campaign on August 17th all around the world.

On Saturday 17 August 2019, Atheist Republic is organising worldwide protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran and its policies against Soheil Arabi and other political prisoners. According to Atheist Republic, 'after 39 days of Soheil Arabi's hunger strike, the Islamic Regime of Iran arrested Soheil’s mother, Farangis Mazlum, and took her to an unknown location. The purpose of the Regime is to allow Soheil to die in silence through his hunger strike, and use his death as a threat to others.

On Friday, July 21st, political prisoner, Soheil Arabi suffered severe seizures and hypotension. The prison guards transferred him to Tehran's Khomeini Hospital after a severe drop in blood pressure that resulted in a heart attack. Soheil was revived with a defibrillator.

On Saturday, July 22, after treatment and injections Soheil’s condition improved, and the prison authorities moved him silently back to the prison at night so that no one would be aware of the transfer.

Soheil has lost 10 kg during his hunger strike, and his blood pressure is very low. The Islamic Regime of Iran seeks to keep Soheil under pressure, and allow him to die, like many other political prisoners, tortured to death in silence.

Soheil Arabi wants to stay on a hunger strike because he has a purpose. He wants to improve the situation of prisoners because they are suffering. Soheil wants to start a prison wide boycott against the grocery stores inside the jail, where all the prisoners refuse to spend their…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2014
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Atheist Republic
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Invitation_to_-FreeSoheil_campaign_on_August_17th_all_around_the_world..webm)
- Licence or status: [CC BY 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Atheist Republic
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/80951704?play=1)