Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari, charged as a protest leader, has been deprived of calling home to her family for almost a week.
The reason for this denial is unknown, and this political prisoner’s family is worried about her condition.
Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari was arrested and detained during the Iran uprising in Karaj and has been charged as a protest leader.
The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Karaj tried her on March 5, 2023. It accused her of “participating in actions against the state through membership in the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI/MEK), propaganda activity against the state through participation in illegal gatherings, propaganda activity, writing slogans, and distributing the photos of the Mojahedin leaders.” She has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.
Massoumeh Senobari from Tabriz was arrested in Karaj on December 13, 2022, and transferred to the city’s Intelligence Department. On January 4, 2023, after some 40 days of interrogation, she was transferred to Ward 4 of Fardis Prison of Karaj, also known as the women’s ward of Kachouii Prison.
She has been detained in a solitary room in the women’s ward and is deprived of all the rights of a political prisoner. She is not allowed to see other inmates. According to the court decision, she has no right to communicate with other prisoners and must be held in a closed prison.
Her airtime is limited to one hour every few days. In this schedule, other prisoners are removed from the airlock, so she cannot communicate with them.
Background information on Massoumeh Senobari’s imprisonment
Massoumeh Senobari, the daughter of Mohammad Ali, was born in 1988 in Tabriz and has a daughter. She had been sentenced to 8 years on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting” the mullahs’ supreme leader and was imprisoned in the women’s ward of the Central Prison of Tabriz.
Massoumeh Senobari was arrested on February 24, 2019, and was transferred to the detention center of the Intelligence Department of Tabriz. She was brutally tortured during interrogation and could not walk due to vicious whipping. Due to the blows to the head, her vision was blurred. Her leg broke under the torture, and her heel cracked. She was released in August 2019 on a bail of 600 million tomans until her trial.
Massoumeh Senobari was arrested again on February 5, 2020, without a previous summons, at her sister’s house and subjected to severe torture. In October 2020, during the coronavirus outbreak in the Central Prison of Tabriz, she was infected with the Covid-19 disease.
Political prisoner Massoumeh Senobari also suffers from heart problems, but the Tabriz prison authorities prevented giving her the medication provided by her family. She was eventually released from prison in 2021.
Ms. Senobari was again arrested in Karaj and transferred to Fardis Prison (Kachouii) on December 13, 2022; there is no information about her condition.
