Several days after political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi was transferred from Ward 209 of Evin Prison to an undisclosed location, her exact whereabouts and condition remain unclear.
According to informed sources, Arghavan Fallahi has been held in solitary confinement following her removal from the IRGC Intelligence Ward, without any notification to her family or legal representative.
In a brief phone call on June 29, 2025, she told her family that she is being kept in solitary confinement but does not know where she is being held. She speculated that she might be in Qarchak Prison in Varamin.
Reports suggest that several detainees were forcibly transferred to undisclosed locations, accompanied by a complete severance of communication and a troubling lack of information for their families.
Arghavan Fallahi was arrested on January 25, 2025, by security forces at her residence in Tehran and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, a detention facility under the control of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.
The 25-year-old woman who resided in Parand, near Tehran, suffers from a chronic medical condition and has been deprived of access to her essential medications since her detention.
Arghavan Fallahi had been previously arrested in November 2022 along with her father, Nasrollah Fallahi, and her brother, Ardavan Fallahi. The family was detained while traveling from Isfahan to Shiraz to visit a family friend, Parvin Mirasan. They were held for over two months in Isfahan’s detention centers, where they were subjected to interrogation and torture.
The ongoing lack of transparency regarding the detention and well-being of political prisoners detained in Ward 209 of Evin Prison—particularly in the case of Arghavan Fallahi, whose age and vulnerability increase her risk—raises serious alarms about the use of enforced disappearance as a state tactic.
In an urgent Call to Action for the release of political prisoners, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi said: Once again, I urge the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Special Rapporteur on Iran, and the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission to take immediate action regarding the condition of prisoners—especially political prisoners—recently transferred from Evin to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (a.k.a.) Fashafouyeh and the notorious Qarchak Prison for women. They were moved abruptly and violently, without a chance to take their belongings. Now they face overcrowding, lack of food, unsanitary conditions, and no proper place to sleep.
