Nargess Mohammadi’s Brother: Stop the Baseless Accusations Against Nargess
Nargess Mohammadi’s brother, Vice President of the Human Rights Defenders Center, condemned in an open letter the conduct of judicial and security officials toward his sister. He attributed the harsh and unlawful treatment of his sister to her defense of people’s rights.
Mahdi Mohammadi in an open letter linked the unlawful and inconceivable behaviors that his sister endures to his activities in defense of people’s rights.
In this letter dated June 2020, it was mentioned among other things that previously officials had brought a doctor to Nargess Mohammadi’s bedside for a medical check-up instead of sending her to the hospital, and on April 5, they sent a judge to prison to take final arguments.
Mahdi Mohammadi asks: “Given all the officers working in the prison and all the security forces, why do they go to such lengths to release her from prison? Has Nargess committed a terrorist act? Is she a drug smuggler or an international murderer that they resort to such abhorrent acts in transferring her from prison or do they want to play games with her nerves?”
The aforementioned letter states: “By holding meetings in prison for inmates, or staging a sit-in for the deaths of November month, which prison order has Nargess disrupted that this charge has been calculated? Nargess is a modest Muslim woman whose struggle is respected by all human rights organizations in the world. Would any free and believing Muslim accept that she would dance and stomp in front of the eyes of some inmates and guards on the day of mourning in the month of Muharram? What are these baseless accusations that the Islamic Republic attributes to its principled opponents? Is it anything other than wanting to taint her efforts to keep alive the rights of the victims of November?”
Nargess Mohammadi, Vice President of the Iranian Human Rights Defenders Center, has been imprisoned since April 6, 2015, to serve her 16-year sentence. Six years of this sentence were issued for propaganda against the system and another 10 years for her activities in the “Step by Step to Abolish the Death Penalty” campaign. She is serving her sentence in Evin Prison, and in December 2019, she was forcibly and physically transferred to Zanjan Prison by the head of Evin. The reason for this transfer was Mohammadi’s sit-in and several other inmates in solidarity with flood and earthquake victims and November protests at the Evin Prison office.
Shirin Ebadi, human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, accused the Ministry of Intelligence of intending to kill Nargess Mohammadi.
Source: DW
