Alia Motabalzadeh, an activist imprisoned in Evin, has been denied "telephone calls"
The wife of a women's rights activist has announced that she has been banned from contacting this prisoner held in Evin Prison.
The husband of Alia Motabalzadeh, a women's rights activist and vice president of the Association for the Defense of Press Freedom, published this news on his Instagram page, writing that in a meeting he had with one of his friends on Sunday, September 4, after a week of not hearing from his wife, Prosecutors overseeing the prison have told him that his wife has been "deprived of any phone calls outside the prison for two months due to her phone calls with prisoners in other prisons and her negative portrayal of the prison authorities' actions in relation to the coronavirus."
According to Sadra Abdollahi, Ms. Motabalzadeh personally decided to break off her visit.
He added that he has been informed by the families of some prisoners that Alia Motabalzadeh will not meet anyone in protest against the illegal process of deprivations imposed, the harshness towards prisoners, and that she will not meet with anyone until these deprivations are lifted, and that she has also informed the prison authorities of this matter.
Referring to the new strict changes imposed on prisoners and the women's ward by prison officials, Sadra Abdollahi added: "The complete severance of Alia Motabalzadeh's communication with the outside world is a cause for further concern, and the responsibility for any incident concerning her health and that of other prisoners in such circumstances lies with the judicial authorities of the Islamic Republic and the prison."
Ms. Motabalzadeh, a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Tehran Revolutionary Court in 2017 on charges of "gathering and colluding against national security" and "propaganda against the system." This sentence was upheld by Branch 36 of the Tehran Provincial Court of Appeal.
Ms. Motabalzadeh, who had begun her sentence in October 2020 despite the coronavirus outbreak, was sent on leave on July 10 after contracting the virus in prison. She eventually returned to Evin Prison on Monday, September 29.
Source: Voice of America
