Arash Sadeghi (Persian: آرش صادقی, born September 29, 1986[2][3]) is an Iranian activist[4][5] and a political prisoner known best for his hunger strike as an act of protest against the detention of his wife without any judiciary proof or legal warrant.
[8] He was first arrested on July 9, 2009 after the results of the controversial 2009 Presidential Election were announced due to which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be kept in power for a second term.
In 2013 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the following charges: propaganda against the government, defamation of the supreme leader, and threatening national security.
[9][10] Sadeghi went on a hunger strike on October 24, 2016[11] to protest against the arrest of his wife who was detained on the charge of writing a fiction which has not yet been published.
[15] Amnesty criticized the Iranian authorities for “disregarding medical advice which recommends his immediate transfer to a facility specializing in cancer treatment.”[16] Sadeghi was reported to have suffered pain in his shoulder for several months, with the prison clinic in Raja’i Shahr, Karaj, prescribing anti-inflammatory drugs.