‘Following Complaint’ of Solitary Confinement, Aliyeh Matlabzadeh Deprived of Phone Contact

Aliyeh Matlabzadeh, photographer and women’s rights activist who, along with 16 other political and ideological prisoners, protested against solitary confinement, has been deprived of her right to telephone contact with her family.

17 political and ideological prisoners in Evin and Rajaishahr prisons filed an official complaint on the first day of Ordibehesht month by submitting a formal petition to the ward offices of these prisons against solitary confinement.

These prisoners, among whom the names of Aliyeh Matlabzadeh, Keyvan Samimi, Farhad Meysami, Arash Sadeghi, Saeed Iqbali, and Reza Mohammadi Hoseini stand out, by citing the duration of their imprisonment, sought punishment for those responsible for and those who ordered their detention and keeping in solitary cells.

Aliyeh Matlabzadeh, who was transferred to Evin prison from October 11, 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic crisis in Iranian prisons to serve her sentence, according to HRANA news agency report, has been deprived of her right to phone contact following the publication of news about her complaint filing.

Ms. Matlabzadeh, vice chair of the Society to Defend the Freedom of the Press in Iran and a member of the One Million Signature Campaign, was sentenced in 2017 by the Revolutionary Court to three years of imprisonment on charges of “assembly and conspiracy against national security” and “propaganda against the system.”

Source: Radio Farda