Women’s Rights Activist Akram Nasirian Released from Evin Prison

Women's Rights Activist Akram Nasirian Released from Evin Prison

On March 7, 2023, women’s rights activist Akram Nasirian was released from Evin Prison.

In August 2022, Nasirian was summoned to Evin Courthouse and jailed to serve her two-year-and-three-month sentence in Evin Prison.
The details of her release are still unknown.

On April 29, 2019, security forces arrested Nasirian in Tehran and detained her in solitary confinement under interrogation in Evin Prison for 20 days. In Late May, she was relocated to double cell solitary in this ward.
On May 26, 2019, she was released on 200-million-toman bail until the end of legal proceedings.

On September 4, 2019, along with Nahid Shaghaghi, Nasirian was summoned to the Evin Courthouse investigation office, presided by Judge Nasiripour.

The Branch 26 of Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge Iman Afshari, sentenced Nasirian and three other women’s rights activists, Asrin Darkaleh, Maryam Mohammadi and Nahid Shaghaghi, each to four years and two months. These verdicts were reduced to two years and three months after the defendants waived their rights to appeal.

In March 2020, Nasirian and three other women’s rights activists were summoned to Evin Courthouse for sentencing, which was postponed until April 3, 2022, due to the Head of Judiciary’s directive to keep health prisons condition in control during the Covid-19 pandemic. In August 2022, she was jailed in Evin Prison.

 

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *