Amnesty International Calls for Immediate Release of Narges Mohammadi, Political Prisoner in Iran
Amnesty International issued a call urging immediate action regarding the situation of Narges Mohammadi, a political prisoner in Iran. The organization asked Iranian authorities to release her immediately and unconditionally.
Amnesty International on Thursday, February 13, issued this call, asking people and human rights activists around the world to write a letter to Ali Asghar Jahangir, head of Iran’s Prison Organization and Security and Educational Measures, demanding the release of Narges Mohammadi, a political prisoner in Iran.
The human rights organization asked people and activists to respond on behalf of Narges Mohammadi’s freedom, using their own voice and pen, inspired by this call, and to ask Iranian authorities to allow this political prisoner to visit with family members and communicate with them, including contact with her children.
Amnesty International also asked people and human rights activists around the world in this letter to ensure that Ms. Mohammadi can immediately receive medical care outside prison.
Narges Mohammadi, a civil activist imprisoned in Iran who has been in prison since mid-May 2015, was forcefully transferred to Zanjan prison after a sit-in with seven other female prisoners in protest of the November massacre.
The human rights organization further requested that Iranian authorities ensure that, according to Narges Mohammadi’s account, the mistreatment that occurred during her transfer to Zanjan prison is investigated independently and impartially, and that she is protected against any future mistreatment.
Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist, was sentenced in June 2017 to sixteen years in prison on charges of “assembly and conspiracy to commit crimes against national security,” “propaganda activities against the system,” and “forming and managing an illegal group called Legam.” Based on Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, only 10 years of this sentence will be enforceable.
Narges Mohammadi, who is serving her sentence in prison, criticized in a letter to the Tehran prosecutor in December 2018 a judicial order reducing the duration of phone calls with her children and announced that in protest, she would refrain from calling her children.
Previously, the United States representative at a periodic review session on the situation of human rights in Iran, attended by representatives of 32 other countries, called for the release of prisoners of conscience, including Narges Mohammadi and Nasrin Sotoudeh, from prison.
Source: Voice of America
