Neda Faragari, one of the detained protesters of the 2022 nationwide uprising, has been fined and sentenced to 2 years in prison by the Amol Revolutionary Court. Ms. Faragari remains incarcerated in the Prison of Amol.
Amol security police arrested Neda Faragari on November 3, 2022, during the 40-day memorial ceremony for the slain protester Ghazaleh Chelavi.
After undergoing an interrogation, she was transferred to Amol prison.
Neda Faragari is accused of chanting “death to the dictator” during the 40-day memorial ceremony for Ghazaleh Chelavi. The court considered the chant an example of “insulting the leadership.”
In addition, the judge who issued the sentence considered some of the other slogans chanted by Neda Faragari to be in line with the accusation of “propaganda against the state.” Since Neda Faragari and other protesters were acting without a leader, the judge considered the acts “collective collusion.”
On December 22, 2022, in the Amol Revolutionary Court, Neda Faragari was sentenced to 2 years on charges of “assembly and collusion.” She was also ordered to pay a fine of 12 million and 16 million tomans, respectively, for the charges of “”propaganda against the state” and “insulting the leader.”
Suma and Sarveh Pour-Mohammadi languishing in jail
Suma and Sarveh Pour-Mohammadi remain in detention without standing trial.
The two sisters are from Sanandaj and the Nojin Cultural and Social Association members. Every day, they undergo interrogation in the detention center of the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj. By evening, they are returned to the Sanandaj Correctional Center.
Sarveh Pour-Mohammadi heads Nojin Association’s branch in Sanandaj. She was arrested on January 29, 2023, when she had gone to court to pursue the cases of other arrested members of the association.
Suma Pour-Mohammadi, Sarveh’s sister and a member of the board of directors of the Nojin Association, was arrested by security forces on January 18, 2023. She was on her way to the court to pursue the case of her husband, Idris Menbari, also a member of the association’s board of directors.
No information is available on the charges against these two sisters and their conditions.
Fereshteh Hosseini was sentenced to 8 months in prison
Branch 101 of the Bukan Criminal Court sentenced Fereshteh Hosseini to 8 months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state.”
Fereshteh Hosseini, 38, from Bukan, was arrested by intelligence forces on August 24, 2022.
Ms. Hosseini was transferred to the Central Prison of Urmia after completing her interrogation period in a detention center. She was temporarily released after 18 days on September 11, 2022, until the end of proceedings on a bail of 100 million Tomans.
During her period of detention and interrogation, Ms. Hosseini was deprived of her basic rights, such as access to a lawyer and meeting with her family.
Fereshteh Mansouri sentenced to 6 months in prison
Fereshteh Mansouri was sentenced to 6 months in prison by the sixth branch of the Court of Appeals of Ilam. The court informed Ms. Mansouri of her sentence.
Fereshteh Mansouri, from Ilam, is the head of the household and has a young child.
Security forces arrested Ms. Mansouri in Ilam on October 23, 2022. Two weeks later, after posting a bail of 55 million Toumans, she was temporarily released until the end of the proceedings.
Fereshteh Mansouri had been sentenced previously to 3 years and six months in prison by the first branch of the Sarableh Revolutionary Court of Ilam on charges of “disturbing the public order and peace, insulting the leader, and assembly and collusion against internal security.”
Former political prisoner Neda Mostaghimi arrested
Security forces in Tehran arrested former political prisoner Neda Mostaghimi on the morning of February 5, 2023, at her place of work.
According to social media reports, “In a phone call, intelligence agents told Neda Mostaghimi that they would go to her house to ask her some questions. They asked her to be at home, but the intelligence agents went to her work place instead and arrested her.”
Ms. Mostaghimi is an employee of one of the Refah chain stores in Tehran and has a child. She had been arrested and convicted previously for her activities.
A student at the Technical School of Sanandaj arrested
Baran Mohebbi, a student at the Technical School of Sanandaj, was arrested.
Baran Mohebbi was arrested on Sunday, January 22, 2023, while she and her family were leaving her dormitory at the Technical School of Sanandaj. Security forces refused to offer alternate accommodations to Baran Mohebi’s family.
Baran Mohebbi, 18, comes from Boroujerd, Lorestan Province, western Iran.
