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A week after the arrest of an Iranian cartoonist and former political prisoner, Atena Farghadani, her lawyer initially said she was taken to Qarchak prison, but because of the severity of her injuries, she was not admitted to the prison and was subsequently transferred to the women’s ward of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. Moghimi wrote in his social media account, “To protest her harassment by security agencies, Atena Farghadani went to Pastor Street to put up a protest cartoon on the wall, when the IRGC Intelligence agents, using extreme violence, first took her to one of their safe houses and severely tortured her. She lost consciousness due to severe bleeding from her nose and the blows to her head, and hours later, regained consciousness in the prayer hall of the 8th Fateb police base where she found out some of her clothes had been removed. He added: “After receiving her clothes, she noticed that blood stains were washed out of her clothes, and on the morning of April 14, she was transferred to the Evin courthouse. She has been falsely charged with ‘spreading propaganda against the state’ and ‘insulting the sanctities’ (against the Shiites’ 12th Imam).”
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The political prisoner Fatemeh Ziaii Azad, 67 years old, a mother of 2 PMOI members and herself a supporter of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran who was on medical leave, was arrested again on Sunday, April 21, and transferred to Evin prison. She has been arrested and imprisoned many times since the 1980s. Until September 2022, when Fatemeh Ziaii Azad was rearrested, she had spent 10 years and two months behind bars. Fatemeh Ziaii Azad (Houri) suffers from Multiple Sclerosis MS and has been deprived of access to medical treatment during her years in prison. On September 10, 2022, she was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against the state” and “having contact with the PMOI.”
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The First Branch of the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj sentenced Suma Pour-Mohammadi to 11 years in prison and banishment to Kermanshah in two separate cases. Suma teaches Kurdish language and is a member of the board of directors of a social and cultural organization in Sanandaj, called Nojin. Sanandaj is the capital of Kurdistan Province in western Iran. Suma has been sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of “formation of a group to sabotage national security.” Suma Pour-Mohammadi, 35, was arrested on January 18, 2024, when she had referred to the court to inquire about the situation of her detained husband.
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On Sunday, April 14, Fariba Safarzaei, a 50-year-old Baloch woman, along with her son, Idris Yar-Ahmadzehi, and her husband, Mikael Yar-Ahmadzehi, went to the Zahedan Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs located on Amir Kabir Blvd. Upon entering, a male guard said Mrs. Fariba Safarzaei had to be physically searched. When she resisted the order and her son also objected the method of the search, the agents at the Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrant Affairs severely beat them. The agents not only refused to follow up Mikael’s birth certificate issues, but also confiscated the birth certificates of the children and even Fariba’s documents. Hundreds of thousands of Baloch people who live in Iran have been denied birth certificates despite trying for years to resolve this issue. When they go to the relevant agencies, they face discrimination, insults and humiliation, and are finally forced to give up the pursuit of obtaining their birth certificates.
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