Political prisoner Narges Mansouri has been sentenced to three years of prison on charges leveled against her during her detention. This is the sixth case filed against Ms. Mansouri.
Narges Mansouri, 46, and the mother of a 12-year-old, is a member of the Syndicate of the workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company. Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced her to five years in prison on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security” and to one year in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the state” in November 2019.
Ms. Mansouri was initially arrested in mid-April 2022 to serve her time in prison but was released on a 3-billion-Toman bail in May. Finally, she was arrested on December 1, 2023, in Khoy and transferred to Evin Prison.
She started a hunger strike on December 25, 2023. In protest of pressures imposed on her family, she has refrained from taking food and medicine. She held a sit-in outside the sentry’s office in the women’s ward of Evin on December 30, protesting the verdict issued to confiscate her mother’s only house, which had been set as Ms. Mansouri’s bail.
The authorities did not show any reaction to Ms. Mansouri’s hunger strike, and finally confiscated her mother’s house.
The latest is that the 28th Branch of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court handed down an additional three-year prison sentence for her in the absence of her lawyer on charges of “propaganda against the state.”
Her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, announced that she has been threatened to death twice by the acting officer Hadi Mohammadi.
