In a letter from Amol Prison, political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has challenged the Iranian regime’s Judiciary for speeding up the execution of death penalties in recent years. She protested in the letter the expedition of what she called state-sponsored murders based on a law passed in 2019 under Ebrahim Raisi, as the head of the Judiciary. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee condemned the regime’s handing down of “retribution” verdicts which sanction systematic murder of people “on any charge” and “under any pretext.” As she said in her letter, Ms. Iraee is trying harder to stop the death penalty because she has lived with the victims of retribution and witnessed their pain in the final moments of their lives.
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The first branch of the Revolutionary Court of Saqqez sentenced a Kurd civil activist Zamaneh Zewyeh of being a member of one of the Kurdish dissident groups, to 10 months in prison. Kurdish civil activist Zamaneh Zewyeh, 29, graduated in law from Payam Noor University of Saqqez is a mother of a 4 year old child. Agents of the Department of Intelligence raided Ms. Zewyeh’s residence on January 29, and arrested her without presenting an arrest warrant. They released her temporarily after 33 days of detention on a 300-million-Toman bail. Zamaneh shares the same case with Meghdad Hassan-Nejad and Mohammad Salimi. They received 27 months of jail time, of which they were informed on April 28.
In another development, Parvin Abdollah Panah, a prominent women’s rights activist in Baneh, Iranian Kurdistan, was transferred to the quarantine ward of the Correctional Center of Sanandaj on April 27, 2022. https://tinyurl.com/5n8b28an
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The pregnant political prisoner Soada Khadirzadeh went unconscious in one of the halls of the Central Prison of Urmia on Monday, May 2, on the eighth day of her hunger strike. On Sunday, May 1, security forces raided Soada Khadirzadeh’s place twice in the women’s ward of the Central Prison of Urmia. They inspected all the belongings of this pregnant political prisoner and her cellmates. Political prisoner Soada Khadirzadeh told Bakhshi, the warden of Urmia Prison, that so long as her demands were not met, she would continue her hunger strike. She stressed: “I will continue my hunger strike even if my health and my 8-month-old fetus are endangered.”
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Political prisoner Leila Chegini began her hunger strike in Nowshahr prison on April 27. She is protesting her lengthy uncertain status and the inhumane pressures and restrictions imposed on her. One of the reasons political prisoner Leila Chegini started a hunger strike is that the prison authorities do not give her the medications vital to her treatment. She is also deprived of phone calls and family visits. Political prisoner Leila Chegini, 43 and a mother of two children, is under torture at Nowshahr Prison in northern Iran.
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Tehran’s Criminal Court has filed a new suit for political prisoner Yasaman Aryani imprisoned in Karaj’s Kachouii Prison in Iran. Yasaman was sentenced to five months imprisonment in addition to her previous prison term by this provincial court on April 26. Ms. Aryani was sentenced to 16 years in prison for opposing the mandatory Hijab and participating in anti-government protests.
Monireh Arabshahi, Yasaman's mother a civil activist, was sent to Rajai Hospital in Karaj from Kachouii Prison on May 1, due to her deteriorating physical condition. According to sources: “A doctor should constantly monitor Ms. Arabshahi after having surgery and draining her thyroid gland. Her hormone levels should be checked. This is not possible in prison conditions; however, the prosecutor opposes sending her on medical leave.” https://tinyurl.com/w8h5ft86
