Confiscation of Assets of “Marzieh Mohebби” Lawyer Declared Permissible
According to a ruling by the Mashhad court against “Marzieh Mohebби,” the confiscation of this lawyer’s assets has been declared permissible.
Marzieh Mohebби is a lawyer living outside of Iran. In response to protests and violent behavior by regime agents against the people, she published texts that led to her being accused of “spreading falsehoods.”
On June 16, according to a summons registered in the Thana system, she was summoned to court to face charges of spreading falsehoods, despite the indictment text not being served to her. Marzieh Mohebби had written in a letter addressed to the head of the seventh branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court regarding the charge of spreading falsehoods: “If you retain even a spark of justice-seeking, fairness, belief, faith, and humanity within yourselves, then ask the security officials without fear of reprimand, salary deduction, or dismissal, which of my statements have been false in conscience?
That people exhausted and exasperated by inflation, corruption, ruin, suffocation, and discrimination were shot at in the streets. That thousands of eyes were targeted in the streets and blinded with malicious and bestial smiles. That all rules of legal procedure from beginning to end were without exception trampled under boots, and children were piled upon in the streets with kicks, fists, batons, tasers, pepper spray and tear gas, and harassment in vehicles prepared for suppression and handed over to officers in militia basements who knew nothing but excess in brutality.” Marzieh Mohebби also decided to publicly release the nature of the “spreading falsehoods” charge and the text of her defense brief.
Ms. Mohebби then announced through a tweet the issuance of a strange ruling of “expulsion from protection” against her by the Mashhad Article 49 court.
She wrote in this tweet: “The corrupt judiciary of this land, through a ruling of the Mashhad Article 49 court, has expelled me from protection and declared my property lawful for taking and consumption. Protection was a covenant between an infidel enemy and the Islamic government, something like today’s asylum. Now how our covenant of citizenship became ‘covenant of protection’ and how the ruler unilaterally rescinded it is among wonders.”
The Islamic Republic system not only confiscates the property of Christians and other religious minorities and puts it up for sale, but also confiscates the property of Iranian citizens for flimsy and illegal reasons. Now it has also issued a ruling to confiscate the assets of Marzieh Mohebби, who lives outside Iran, and even considers it permissible.
