Amirhossein Mohammadifard and Sanaz Allahyari were deprived of contact and visits with each other after the start of their hunger strike.
Amir Hossein Mohammadifard and Sanaz Alhayari, members of Gam magazine, were denied phone calls and visits to each other after they began their hunger strike.
The Twitter page of the campaign to support the Haft Tappeh detainees announced the news on Friday, July 4th, writing: "The only action taken by prison officials to address their request was to cut off the phones and calls of this imprisoned couple."
Amir Hossein Mohammadifard, editor-in-chief of Gam magazine, wrote an open letter from Evin Prison to Mohammad Moghiseh, the judge in the case, requesting the release of himself and his wife, Sanaz Alhayari, on bail until the trial.
In this letter, he wrote that if the situation is not clarified and his and his wife's situation is not addressed, he will go on a hunger strike starting Thursday, July 4th.
On Thursday, July 4, Amnesty International issued a call for people and human rights activists around the world to write a letter to Ali Qasi Mehr, the Prosecutor General of Tehran, in their own words and with their own pen, and inspired by this call, to respond to the situation of Amir Amirgholi, Sanaz Allahyari, and Amir Hossein Mohammadifard, who have been arbitrarily arrested and held in prison without access to their lawyers since January 2018, and to demand the immediate and unconditional release of these three journalists.
Mohammadifard and Alhayari were arrested by security agents on January 9, 2018. After several months of detention in the Ministry of Intelligence's detention center, they were transferred to Evin Prison in May of this year.
The Haft Tappeh protests case has seven defendants. The case of Esmaeil Bakhshi, Sepideh Qolyan, Amir Amirgholi, Amir Hossein Mohammadifard, Sanaz Allahyari, Ali Nejati, and Asal Mohammadi has been sent to Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
"Membership in a group opposed to the regime," "gathering and colluding," "propaganda against the regime," and "spreading lies with the intent to disturb public opinion" are among the charges that have been presented in court to Amir Amirgholi, Sanaz Alhayari, Amir Hossein Mohammadifard, and Esmaeil Bakhshi.
Source: Voice of America
