A group of women political prisoners in Evin Prison have been deprived of making phone calls and having visitations after they protested the visit by the regime’s judges.
A group of prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin have been deprived of making phone calls and having visitations, after they protested the visit to their ward by the notorious judges of Iranian Judiciary, Iman Afshari and Mohammad Reza Amouzad. They chanted “death to Khamenei” and other anti-regime slogans. Prison guards intervened and clamped down on the protesting prisoners.
Prison authorities threatened to file new charges against the female political prisoners in Evin and banish them to remote prisons. They also banned some prisoners from their right to call their families and visit them. Shiva Esmaili, 58, Forough Taghipour, 29, Marzieh Farsi, 58, Arghavan Fallahi, 24, and Parvin Mirasan, 66, are among the political prisoners in Evin deprived of their rights.
Shiva Esmaili: She was arrested on March 11, 2023. Mullah Iman Afshari sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Ms. Esmaili is suffering from cancer. Her son, Mehdi Vafaei, is also imprisoned for being a supporter of the PMOI/MEK.
Forough Taghipour: She was arrested in September 2023 and is set to be tried on the fabricated charge of “sedition.” Her father and sister are in Ashaf-3.
Marzieh Farsi: She was arrested on August 21, 2023, and is set to be tried on the charge of “sedition.” She has cancer. Her brother, Hassan Farsi, was executed during the massacre of political prisoners in 1988. Another brother and two sisters of hers are in Ashraf-3.
Arghavan Fallahi: She was arrested on November 3, 2022, and has been detained since without standing trial. She was arrested along with her father and brother, who are also imprisoned in Evin.
Parvin Mir-Asan: She was arrested on November 3, 2022, but has not stood trial yet.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran calls on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council, the UNSR on the situation of human rights in Iran, the UNSR on violence against women and girls, and all authorities advocating human rights and women’s rights, to decisively condemn the brutality of the mullahs’ misogynous regime, especially against female political prisoners. The NCRI Women’s Committee urges the UN International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran to visit the country’s prisons and interview the prisoners.
