HRANA News Agency – In women’s ward of Evin prison, known as Nesvan ward, there are many mothers along with other women who are kept in a bad environment, phone calls are not allowed and visits are very limited. This report is trying to give an overview about the condition and status of 24 female political-security prisoners in this prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), currently, 32 female prisoners are kept in this ward with different charges, two of whom have financial charges and 30 of them are political-security prisoners. The names of 30 prisoners who have been identified by HRANA are as following:
Mahvash Shahriari Sabet (64 years old):
Charges: Establishment and development of illegal Baha’i organization, and collusion.
Sentence: 10 years in prison
Medical condition: diseases of joints and osteoporosis
Description: One of the 7 members of the Baha’i leaders known as the “Yaran-e Iran”.
Fariba Kamal Abadi (54 years old):
Charges: setting up an illegal organization and development of the Baha’i community
Sentence: 10 years in prison
Description: one of the 7 members of the Baha’i leaders known as the “Yaran-e Iran”.
Maryam Akbari Monfared (41 years old):
Charges: waging war against the state by working with an opposition group
The first sentence: 15 years in prison
Description: Hamidreza Akbari Monfared and her other brother are also in Rajai Shahr prison for similar charges.
Reyhaneh Haj Ebrahim Dabbagh (35 years old):
Charges: waging war against the state by working with an opposition group
Sentence: 15 years in prison
Medical conditions: bowel disease, colitis and foot discomfort
Description: Among the Ashura arrestees, she was arrested along with her husband, Ahmad Daneshpoor, her father in law and her mother in law. She refuses to be sent to hospital in handcuffs and therefore has been deprived of medical treatment for her neck and bone problems. Her husband is held in ward 350 of Evin and is suffering from different diseases, while his father is on death row for his political activities.
Sedigheh Moradi (57 years old):
Charges: waging war against the state by working with an opposition group
Sentence: 10 years in prison
Medical conditions: suffering from multiple diseases
Description: Experienced imprisonment in the 1980s, a parole request has been sent to the Supreme Court but has so far remained unanswered.
Narges Mohammadi (44 years old):
Charges: propaganda against the regime, acting against national security through membership in illegal groups, gathering and collusion and forming an illegal group.
Sentence: 7 years imprisonment plus a newly added 16 years
Medical conditions: suffering from pulmonary embolism, and crippling muscle disease.
Description: Civil society activist and women’s rights activist, was detained for human rights activities, participating in protests against acid attacks and a speech at the tomb of Sattar Beheshti
Zahra Zehtabchy (46 years old):
Charges: waging war against the state by working with an opposition group
Sentence: 10 years in prison
Medical conditions: spending long term in in solitary confinement caused her serious physical problems
Description: arrest record in 2009 as well.
Fatemeh Muthana (46 years old):
Charges: waging war against the state by working with an opposition group
The first verdict: 15 years in prison
Medical conditions: she suffers from mental illness and neurological diseases
Description: three years in prison at the age of 13 which she has served in the 1980s, a while ago her husband was also arrested in the prison meeting hall due to the political activities and was transferred to Rajai Shahr prison.
Fahimeh A`rafi (52 years old):
Charges: gathering and collusion, blasphemy
Sentence: 5 years
Description: Erfan-e-Halgheh teacher, was in Qarchak prison and then transferred to Evin prison
Roya Saberi Nezhad Nobakht (50 years old):
Charges: blasphemy and insulting the heads of judiciary
Sentence: 5 years in prison
Medical conditions: seizures and panic attacks
Description: cyber activists, spent more than a year and a half in Qarchak Prison. Last April she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin prison, Iranian-British citizen
Bahareh Hedayat (35 years old):
Charges: propaganda against the state, assembly and collusion against national security, insulting the Supreme Leader and the president, roorback.
Sentence: 2 years in prison
Description: student activist, a member of the OCU and the leadership of the students’ movement in Iran, who in the first case was sentenced to 7 years and 6 months and at the end of her sentence her freedom was hindered and a 2-year suspended prison sentence was implemented, she was released recently.
Elham Farahani (53 years old):
Charges: acting against national security through membership in the Baha’i administration
Sentence: 4 years in prison
Description: her husband, Adel Naimi and her son Shamim Naimi have been convicted and are in prison on similar charges.
Nasim Bagheri (33 years old):
Charges: propaganda against the system and acting against national security through membership in an illegal institute (Virtual University of Baha’is)
Sentence: 4 years in prison
Description: professor of the Virtual University of Baha’is in Iran
Elham Barmaki (46 years old):
Charges: espionage
Sentence: 7 years in prison
Description: Iranian-Cypriots citizen
Behnaz Zakeri (54 years old):
Charges: waging war against the state by working with an opposition group
Sentence: 10 years in prison
Medical conditions: severe nerve problems
Maryam Nagahsh Zargaran (38 years old):
Charges: gathering and acting against national security through establishment of house churches
Sentence: 4 years in prison
Time in prison: 2 years
Medical conditions: heart disease, ASD and record of heart surgery
Description: was arrested in Pastor Saeed Abedini’s case and currently is in medical furlough
Azita Rafizadeh (35 years old):
Charges: propaganda against the system and acting against the national security through membership in an illegal Institute.
Sentence: 5 years in prison
Description: Baha’i citizen and the teacher of Baha’i Institute of Higher Education, her husband, Peyman Kooshk Baghi was sentenced to five years in prison on similar charges.
Paniz Azimi (21 years old):
Charges: Facebook activities
Sentence: one year in prison.
Description: Mohammad Najafi’s wife
Marjan Davari (50 years old):
Charges: Unknown
Status: Being kept in limbo
Description: Translator and researcher
Reyhaneh Tabatabai (31 years old):
Charges: propaganda against the state
Sentence: six months in prison and six months suspended sentence.
Description: journalist and political activist who was arrested because of reporting the tenth presidential elections protests in Iran.
Nazila Hamidov:
Charge: Espionage
Status: being kept in limbo
Description: A resident of Baku and citizen of Azerbaijan Republic.
Nazila Hamodof (50 years old):
Charges: espionage
Status: not decided and in limbo
Description: new converted to Christianity and from Baku.
Laila Jafari:
Charges: Collusion and cooperation with Halgheh theosophy
Status: Sentenced to 2 years in prison
Laila Jama`t:
Charges: Collusion and cooperation with Halgheh theosophy
Status: Sentenced to 2 years in prison
Ameneh Jaberi:
Charges: Collusion and cooperation with Halgheh theosophy
Status: Sentenced to 2 years in prison
Sotoudeh Fazeli:
Charges: Acts against the national security by cooperation with an opposition organization
Status: Sentenced to 3 years in prison
Maryam Afshangi:
Charges: Collusion and cooperation with Halgheh theosophy
Status: Sentenced to 2 years in prison
Negar Afsharzadeh:
Charges: Acts against national security
Status: since 1 year and 7 months ago in limbo
Description: dual citizenship
Ayda Yahyapoor:
Charges: Acts against national security
Status: under temporary arrest
Description: lawyer
Mahin Izadi (20 years old):
Charges: Acts against national security
Status: under temporary arrest
Xila Shahriari:
Charges: Acts against national security
Status: under temporary arrest
Description: Baha’i citizen, sister in law of Mahvash Shahriari, other Baha’i citizen. Recently transferred from 209 ward to women’s ward.
