According to new reports from Iran, the authorities of Evin Prison in Tehran abruptly transferred the retired teacher Massoumeh Asgari to the Kachouii Prison of Karaj on Wednesday, December 22, 2021.
Prison authorities called her to meet with a courthouse official, but instead, they pushed her into a car and relocated her to the Kachouii Prison of Karaj.
They did not even allow her to take her personal belongings and even medications.
Massoumeh Asgari is very ill with different illnesses. She has diabetes, liver and kidney complications, and psychological and nervous diseases.
A source close to her family said she takes 20 different tablets every day but did not have access to her medications for two days. She was not able to make any phone calls for three days.
Ms. Asgari is being held alongside prisoners convicted of ordinary crimes in violation of the principle of separation of crimes.
Amin Vaziri, the supervisor of political prisoners in Evin, has ordered her relocation despite her illnesses to punish her.
Massoumeh Asgari guardian of her 16-year-old son
The retired teacher Massoumeh Asgari was first arrested during street protests in Tehran on August 2, 2018. She was detained in Qarchak Prison but freed on bail after several days.
Intelligence agents again arrested her in December 2018 and took her under interrogation for one month in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. She was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin on January 2, 2019.
After one year, she was sent on medical leave upon the forensics office’s certification that she needed to treat her various illnesses. But she was returned to the women’s ward of Evin Prison on November 22, 2020, before completing her treatment, to serve her remaining four years.
The 26th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced her to five years in prison on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security,” a ruling that the Revision Court later upheld.
The retired teacher Massoumeh Asgari is the only guardian of her 16-year-old son.
