Raheleh Rahemipour, a 72-year-old justice-seeking activist, has been sentenced to more than four years in prison, according to a recent ruling by Branch 21 of the Tehran Province’s Court of Appeals. The verdict was officially communicated to her defense attorney on March 9, 2025.
Raheleh Rahemipour was sentenced to three years, six months, and ten days in prison for “assembly and collusion against national security” and an additional seven months and twenty days for “propaganda against the state.” Under Article 134 of the regime’s Penal Code, which mandates that the harshest sentence be enforced in cases involving multiple charges, she will serve three years, six months, and ten days in prison.
Raheleh Rahemipour was first arrested in November 2019 and was later released. In 2020, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced her to six years in prison.
In November 2023, after appearing at Evin’s prosecutor’s office, she was re-arrested and transferred to Evin Prison to serve her sentence.
The political prisoner Raheleh Rahemipour is one of the families of the prisoners executed in the 1980s. Mrs. Rahemipour has been trying for years to clarify the truth about the disappearance of her brother and nephew, who were imprisoned in the 1980s.
Her brother Hossein Rahemipour, a dentist, was arrested along with his pregnant wife in 1983. His daughter Golrou was born in Evin Prison.
When she was 15 days old, Golrou was separated from her mother for supposed medical care and was not returned to her. In April 1984, the authorities informed the Rahemipour family that Golrou had passed away, without showing them her death certificate or grave.
