Kavoos Seyed-Emami's wife's curfew extended again: "No one is responsible for my mother's condition"

Ramin Seyed Emami, son of Kavous Seyed Emami, told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about the extension of his mother's travel ban, despite the fact that she has no criminal record : " There are no charges against my mother, but we do not know why she has been prevented from leaving the country for a year. Unfortunately, the simplest right, the ability to travel, has been taken away from my mother." We have been mourning for a year and our desire has been to be together. But my mother is on the other side and we are on the other side. No one is answering the reason for my mother's travel ban and its extension. My mother has not committed any crime, she has no criminal record, why should she be banned from traveling? We have been stuck in limbo for a year without answers .

Seyed Emami's two children and their mother were planning to leave the country for Canada shortly after Seyed Emami's death on March 8, 2017. However, at the airport, Ms. Maryam Mombini was informed that she was prohibited from leaving.

Payam Derfashan, the lawyer of Maryam Mombini, the wife of Kavous Seyed Emami, told IRNA on February 10, 2018, announcing the extension of her client's exit ban, saying that on February 19, when she visited the Evin Prison Prosecutor's Office, she found out that her client's " exit ban order " had not been lifted and had been " extended. " According to Derfashan, this order was issued by " Amin Naseri, the head of the Security Prosecutor's Office . "

Twelve days earlier, Abuzar Nasrollahi, another lawyer for Kavous Seyed-Emami's wife, told IRNA that on February 7, they had gone to the Attorney General's Office, which is the authority for inquiring about the status of citizens' travel bans, and found out that Maryam Mombini's travel ban had expired on January 1, 2018. The lawyer had said that since the authority issuing and extending it was the " Head of the Security Prosecutor's Office " , he should announce its lifting separately.

However, 12 days later, it became clear that Ms. Mombini's travel ban had been extended again to an unspecified future date, without any clear reason.

In an interview with IRNA on February 20, Payam Darfashan said in protest against the extension of his client's travel ban : "The travel ban was a precautionary measure, and even despite security justifications in this case, no charges were raised against the client from the beginning, and he was always asked to cooperate as an informant."

The lawyer also said that they have again requested in a letter to the Tehran prosecutor: "We requested that, given the continuation of the client's exit ban order despite the fact that he had no involvement in any matter, his exit ban order be lifted, regardless of the fact that the said order lacks legal validity."

Maryam Mombini was informed by airport officials at Imam Khomeini Airport on March 8, 2017, while planning to travel to Canada with her two children, that she was banned from leaving. Her lawyer, Payam Darfashan, told the Campaign on April 20, 2018 that her client's ban on leaving was not based on a court order and that the decision was not a judicial one but a security one.

On February 19, Maryam Mombini was summoned to Branch 27 of the court to meet with her husband, but after three hours of interrogation and threats of arrest against herself and her family members, she was told that her husband had committed suicide in prison and “they forced her to sign a paper and promise not to talk to the media or she would go to prison.”

She was repeatedly harassed after her husband's death. On July 24, 2018, 20 security officers with video cameras entered the home of Kavos Seyed-Emami and interrogated Ms. Mombini " forcibly " for several hours in front of a camera for the production of a film called " The Fall. " According to her lawyers, Ms. Mombini was constantly screaming and her crying could be heard from below the window of the house. After several hours of interrogation, she fainted and was forced to be taken to the hospital.

Kavous Seyed-Emami, a sociology professor, faculty member at Imam Sadeq University, and CEO of the Persian Heritage Wildlife Institute, was arrested on February 24, according to his son, and his family was informed of his death, which was reported as a "suicide," on February 9. However, it is unclear under what circumstances Kavous Seyed-Emami was interrogated, under what physical and psychological conditions he was held in Evin Prison, and how such an incident could have happened to someone who was in perfect physical and mental health.

Source: Iran Human Rights Campaign