Massoumeh Zia, Tahereh Riyahi, and Mahsa Roj’ati were transferred to solitary confinement in Ward 241 of Evin Prison on Saturday night, March 25, 2017.
No information is available on the reason for their transfer to the solitary ward.
An informed source said in this regard, “The families of these prisoners who had referred to the prison to visit their children were notified by the authorities that they had been deprived of visits.”
Massoumeh Zia, a civil rights activist, Tahereh Riyahi, a journalist, and Mahsa Roj’ati, a civil rights activist, had been transferred to the Evin’s Women’s Ward after two months of interrogation in solitary confinement at Ward 209.
