Saqqez (Province of Kurdistan): The regime has turned the hospitals into prison

Iran Press News: an English translation.

Based on received reports from the city of Saqqez, on Thursday, huge protests organized by the families of political prisoners and recent protest detainees took place; the protestors gathered in front of the central prison of the city demanding the immediate and unconditional release of political prisoners and the recently arrested protestors.

According to all accounts, the number of injured continues to increase and while hospital beds in the two main hospitals of the city (Social Assurance Hospital and Khomeini Hospital) fill up, the regime's [security forces] continue to closely monitor the injured, looming over their heads as they receive treatment, interrogating them. Witnesses describe the hospitals as having been turned into prisons!

The regime's snipers and sharp-shooters have also positioned themselves throughout the city, on the roofs of civilian homes, looking through their viewfinders in order to aim and shoot at any group of protestors that think of gathering.

On Thursday, Aug. 4th, in the township of Paveh, a general strike occurred; business-owners joined the overall protests by closing their shops and offices. The panicked regime deployed a large number of its' forces from various parts of the province to Paveh for fear that the protests in this township too will result in the heightened clashes as seen elsewhere in Kurdistan.

The arrest of a huge number of girls and women in the city of Sanandadj is also being reported. These reports describe the viciousness with which the regimes' forces confront this city's protestors; the[security forces] have taken to breaking private homes doors down in order to capture the young protestors. The regime has also begun transferring the detained protestors out of their own hometowns.

Kurdistan's various political parties have united in calling for a province-wide strike on Sunday, August 7th; it is expected that the bazaar, factories, offices, schools, etc., all to be entirely shut down.