Newsweek
Benjamin Brière, a French tourist imprisoned in Iran, started a hunger strike on Saturday after he was denied a phone call with his family on Christmas Day, according to his sister and lawyer.
Brière, 36, claims he has been experiencing mistreatment in prison, and after "one more mistreatment" after the refusal of the phone call with his family, he began the hunger strike, his sister Blandine Brière told the Associated Press.
Blandine Brière said that her brother wants to "protest…and therefore put his health at risk to move things forward."
"At the moment, we don't see any move, we have no hope of change, of freedom," she was quoted by the AP.
