HRANA News Agency – Karen Vafadari and Afarin Neisari, Zoroastrian Iranian-American couple in the sixth month of their detention were informed of their security charges in Shahid Moghadas Court, in Evin Prison. In addition to “recruiting and introducing spies, and assembly and collusion against national security”, this couple has been charged with “showing and selling art works contrary to Islamic principles” in their gallery.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Afarin Neisari, editor of “AUN Negarestan”, (Gallery of Contemporary Visual Arts) and her husband, Karen Vafadari, were arrested in Tehran International Airport, by Sarallah Guards, on July 20, 2016. Continue reading “Karen Vafadari and Afarin Neisari Charged in Shahid Moghadas Court of Evin”

HRANA News Agency – Karen Vafadari and A’farin Neisari, Iranian-American Zoroastrian couple, are still kept in limbo in the sixth month of their detention in Evin prison. Mrs. Neisari has been transferred to the women’s ward but her husband, Mr. Vafadari is in ward 2-A, and probably in solitary confinement. They have been interrogated under preliminary charges of “espionage” but they have not been tried yet and their charges have not been officially announced.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), A’farin Neisari was arrested on October 21, 2016 and several days later, Karen Vafadari was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence forces, both in the airport.  Continue reading “Iranian-American Zoroastrian Couple Arrested by IRGC”