Iran: Maryam Akbari denied medical leave and treatment
Iranian political prisoner Maryan Akbari Monfared needs medical treatment but Evin Prison authorities refuse to let ...
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Maryam Akbari Monfared, a resilient political prisoner in exile, is serving her 13th year of imprisonment without a single day of leave in the Prison of Semnan.
Maryam Akbari Monfared has three daughters. She was arrested on December 29, 2009, after the tremendous uprising on December 27 that year which shook the pillars of the regime. In June 2010, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran handed down a 15-year prison sentence for Moharebeh on the alleged charge of “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,” a charge which Mrs. Akbari has never accepted. She has been in prison without a single day of leave since the day she was detained. She suffers from Thyroid malfunction and joint rheumatism.
Maryam Akbari’s sister and brother were executed during the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988. Another two of her brothers were executed during the mass executions in the early 1980s.
Iran: Imprisoned women support hunger strike in Gohardasht Prison
Atena Daemi, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Maryam Akbari Monfared, detained in the women's ward of Evin ...
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Iran: Women prisoners of Evin write letter of protest
In an open letter of protest, women political prisoners in Iran’s Evin Prison have demanded the ...
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Iran: Political prisoner Maryam Akbari writes to visitors of Evin
In a letter addressed to the ambassadors who visited Evin Prison on a guided tour on ...
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Iran: Maryam Akbari threatened with extension of prison sentence
Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action on Monday, May 22, 2017, on the plight of prisoner ...
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Iran: Maryam Akbari’s vote is a resounding NO to the clerical regime
In a letter dated May 3, 2017, political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared wrote from prison, reiterating ...
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Iran: Solidarity in Sydney with female political prisoners in Iran
A meeting entitled, "Heroic Women in Today's Iran", was held on Saturday, April 29, 2017, in ...
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Iran: Evin prisoner writes of her faith in the spring of freedom
In a letter to her family on the Persian New Year, Maryam Akbari Monfared reiterated her ...
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Iran: Evin prisoners observed the International Women’s Day
Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in the Evin Prison commemorated the International Women's Day. The ...
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Iran: 20 NGOs, organizations demand end to persecution of 3 women
Amnesty International and 19 other NGOs and human rights organizations issued a joint statement on March ...
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