The regime’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a university student, Armita Pavir, to prison for her political activities.
Armita Pavir, a student of cellular and molecular biology, was sentenced to a total of 22 months and 17 days in prison on charges of “spreading propaganda against the state”, and “insulting the leadership and authorities”, by the Azarshahr Revolutionary Court in northeastern Iran.
Armita Pavir was arrested on September 21, 2023, and is currently in the Central Prison of Tabriz under mental torture and severe restrictions. She has denied the charges brought against her but has refused to express remorse to receive amnesty.
The student activist at Tabriz University was tried in absentia, without the right to a lawyer of her choice and due process.
Armita Pavir went on a dry hunger strike, refusing to eat food and liquids on January 27. She started drinking liquids, refusing to eat food on February 1.
On the 17th day of her hunger strike, she told her family in a phone call from Tabriz Prison that she “would not back down even at the cost of her life.”
“I also told the judge that in the 750 pages in my dossier, you cannot accuse me of publishing lies, because all my words are documented and true,” she told her family.
According to Ghasem Baddi, a lawyer in Tabriz, “Based on the audio file that came to us exclusively from Armita Pavir, prison authorities are trying to transfer her to the Razi (psychiatric) Hospital. Also, a group of women in Tabriz prison have joined Armita’s hunger strike.”
Evidence shows that political prisoners are transferred to psychiatric hospitals as a means of putting more pressure on them.
Armita Pavir was arrested on October 31, 2022, during the nationwide protests and was released on bail on December 8.