Details of New Court Ruling for Narges Mohammadi, Civil Activist, Revealed

Taghi Rahmani, a political activist based in Paris and husband of Narges Mohammadi, announced on Wednesday, January 26th, details of the new conviction of this civil activist.

Ms. Mohammadi finally managed to discuss the details of this new court ruling in a phone call with her family in Iran on Tuesday.

Based on a ruling issued by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, this civil activist has been sentenced to eight years and two months in prison, 74 lashes, two years of exile from Tehran, two years of prohibition from activity in institutions and political parties, two years of prohibition from presence and activity on social networks and telecommunications interviews.

This was Ms. Mohammadi’s first phone call with her family since her transfer to Qarchak Prison in Varamin.

Mr. Rahmani noted at the end of his recent tweet that this ruling is “preliminary” and has been issued separately from Narges Mohammadi’s previous conviction. Therefore, the previous ruling remains in force.

On the third of Bahman, he had tweeted that his wife was sentenced in a five-minute court hearing to, in addition to imprisonment and lashing sentences, two years of “prohibition from telecommunications contact,” but he had described other details of the ruling as “unclear.”

Narges Mohammadi was arrested on November 16th during a security force raid on a mourning ceremony at the grave of Ibrahim Ketabdar, commemorating those killed in November 2019, and after two months of interrogation and detention in solitary cells at the Ministry of Intelligence detention center, known as Ward 209 of Evin Prison, was transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin last week.

Qarchak Prison in the city of Rey, known as the women’s prison, is located 45 kilometers southeast of Tehran near the city of Qarchak and along the Tehran-Varamin highway.

In a previous case that had been opened against this civil activist in recent months, charges such as “propaganda against the system,” “sit-in at the prison office,” “rebellion against prison authorities,” “breaking windows,” and “slander” regarding torture and assault allegations were raised, and she was sentenced to “80 lashes, 30 months of imprisonment and two instances of financial payment” for these charges.

Source: Radio Farda