Court session held for charges against Mehraveh Khandan, daughter of Nasrin Sotoudeh
A court session to address charges against Mehraveh Khandan, the 20-year-old daughter of Nasrin Sotoudeh, was held on Monday, October 26, 2020, in Branch 1175 of the Qods Judiciary Complex. She was arrested on August 18, 2020, and was released a few minutes later after posting bail from Evin Prosecutor’s Office.
According to Hrana news agency, the news organ of the Iranian Human Rights Activists’ Association, on Monday, October 26, 2020, a court session was held to address charges against Mehraveh Khandan, the 20-year-old daughter of Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Reza Khandan explained regarding this court session, which was held in Branch 1175 of the Qods Judiciary Complex following a complaint by Fatemeh Hasanpur, one of the female ward officers at Evin Prison: “The respected lawyers in the case, Mr. Mostafa Neili and Ms. Shadi Halimi, as well as Mehraveh, presented their defenses. The judge asked the complainants to provide a CD containing video footage from the visitation hall on the specified day. Therefore, it was decided that on Saturday the CCTV footage from the visitation hall would be submitted so that the judge can issue a ruling based on that and other evidence in the case. On the other hand, parallel to the court session, the social worker from Qarchak Prison and the judicial representative of Evin Prison requested settlement and withdrawal from the case, which was not accepted by Mehraveh.”
She was arrested on August 18, 2020, and was released a few minutes later after posting bail from Evin Prosecutor’s Office.
Previously, Reza Khandan, the husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, while confirming the news in a conversation with Hrana’s reporter, said: “Five security officers came to the door of our house and without any prior summons and without providing any explanation, they arrested Mehraveh and transferred her to Branch 1 of Evin Prosecutor’s Office. Finally, after several hours of follow-up, she was released a few minutes later after posting bail.”
During Nasrin Sotoudeh’s years of imprisonment, her family has constantly been under pressure from security and judicial authorities.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin Prison, announced from Tuesday, August 10, 2020, through a letter detailing a request for the release of political prisoners, that she had begun a hunger strike.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist, was arrested at her home on June 13, 2018, and transferred to Evin Prison. According to Mohammad Moghimi, one of Sotoudeh’s lawyers, her combined sentence for 2 cases is 38 years in prison with 148 lashes; for the first case 5 years in prison and for the second case 33 years in prison with 148 lashes was issued to her.
Regarding the second case, Ms. Sotoudeh was tried in absentia on December 30, 2018, in Branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court and was convicted for seven charges including “assembly and conspiracy against national security, propaganda activities against the system, effective membership in the illegal and anti-security organization Defenders of Human Rights Center, Legam (abolish execution), and National Council of Peace, encouraging people toward corruption and obscenity and providing its causes, and appearing without proper Islamic hijab at the interrogation branch office, disruption of public order and peace, and spreading false information with intent to disturb public opinion,” to a total of 33 years imprisonment and 148 lashes. However, according to Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, 12 years of this sentence “is enforceable.”
Ms. Sotoudeh is the mother of two children named Mehraveh and Nima.
Source: Hrana
