Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared, recently transferred to Qarchak Prison, remains in solitary confinement.
She completed her 15-year prison sentence in exile at Semnan Prison on October 11, 2024, without a single day of furlough. However, the clerical regime’s Judiciary—acting on orders from the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence—sentenced her to an additional three years, with two years set for immediate enforcement, based on two baseless cases and without any evidence.
Her new alleged charges include “propaganda against the regime,” “insulting the leadership,” “gathering and collusion,” “spreading falsehoods and disturbing public opinion,” and “inciting people against national security.”
Yet, Maryam Akbari Monfared’s principal “crime” is her pursuit of justice for her sister and three brothers, executed by the regime, and her formal complaint in 2016 against those responsible for these murders.
In early July, the news agency Shargh reported that the regime’s Executive Headquarters of Imam’s Directive filed a fresh lawsuit seeking to confiscate Maryam’s and her family’s assets.
Nevertheless, on Tuesday, October 22, 2024, the regime transferred Maryam Akbari Monfared to the infamous Qarchak Prison, where she has endured nearly ten days in solitary confinement.
Located in Varamin County in Tehran Province, Qarchak holds about 2,000 prisoners in deplorable conditions, with salty water and sanitation that falls drastically short of international standards.
In a statement dated October 22, 2024, the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran urgently called upon the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council, the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, and other advocates of human and women’s rights to condemn the inhumane treatment of political prisoners by the regime—particularly the treatment of female prisoners—and to take immediate action to secure Maryam Akbari Monfared’s release.
