Shahrnaz Akbari, Mother of One of 2009 Protest Victims, Summoned to Prison to Serve One-Year Sentence

Shahrnaz Akbari, mother of Mostafa Karim Beigi who was killed during the 2009 protests, has been summoned to prison to serve her one-year prison sentence.

Shahrnaz Akbari wrote on Twitter on Thursday, December 5th, announcing that a summons for the execution of her sentence had been delivered to her and the legal deadline is five days. She stated: “During interrogation, they told me to forget that I had a son, and I said I cannot forget. This is the burden of motherhood—a mother cannot forget that she had a son.”

Continuing her tweet, she added: “Today I have sons and daughters as vast as all of Iran.”

Shahrnaz Akbari had previously been sentenced by one of the branches of the Revolutionary Court to one year in prison and banned from participating in cyberspace.

Ms. Akbari, who over the past 10 years has constantly sought justice and pursued those responsible for her son’s death, was convicted of “propaganda activity against the system” and sentenced to one year of imprisonment, travel ban, prohibition from political activities, and ban from cyberspace participation.

Her son, Mostafa Karim Beigi, was shot in the head and killed on the sixth of Dey month during the protests against the 2009 presidential election results, which coincided with Ashura.

Source: DW