Last year, on May 18, 2023, agents from the IRGC Intelligence arrested Nasim Gholami Simiyari in one of Tehran’s streets.
They took her immediately to the IRGC’s Ward 1A and interrogated her in solitary confinement. After two months, she was transferred to Ward 2A and eventually sent to the women’s ward of Evin Prison on September 26, 2023.
She was subjected to mental and physical torture during the early months of arrest and forced to make televised confessions against herself. The confessions, dictated by her interrogator, are now being used against her.
After five months, she was arraigned on her charges at the courthouse of Evin Prison. She was accused of “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state,” and “Bagh-ye (i.e. armed rebellion).”
Nasim Gholami Simiyari was born on July 13, 1988. Her status remains undecided after one year in detention.
Detaining prisoners for lengthy periods under undecided conditions is a common practice under the clerical regime, but illegal according to the regime’s laws.
