Two Weeks of ‘No News’ About Narges Mohammadi’s Detention Status in Solitary Cell
Taghi Rahmani, a political activist living in Paris and husband of Narges Mohammadi, says that the lack of information about the condition of this civil activist held in solitary confinement in Islamic Republic prisons continues.
Rahmani wrote on Twitter on Thursday, November 11, that the couple’s children have again been deprived of hearing their mother’s voice and that “there is no news about Narges’ condition.”
Referring to the fact that holding a prisoner in solitary confinement is a form of “torture,” he called for Iranian security institutions to be held accountable for Ms. Mohammadi’s detention conditions.
Narges Mohammadi was arrested on November 25 during a raid by security forces on a mourning ceremony at the cemetery of Ibrahim Ketabdar, one of those killed in November 2019.
Arash Sadeghi, a civil activist and former political prisoner, wrote on Twitter on November 26 that Ms. Mohammadi is being held in solitary confinement in Ward 2-A, which is the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ security ward in Evin Prison, and is currently facing a sentence of 30 months imprisonment and 80 lashes.
This civil activist and spokesperson for the Center for Defenders of Human Rights in Iran was summoned to Evin Prosecutor’s Office in early September this year to serve her new conviction sentence. On October 4, she announced that she would “defy” this sentence.
Ms. Mohammadi had emphasized in a post on her Instagram page, “If she is forcibly returned to prison, she will continue her protest from inside the prison.”
Previously, on April 5, 2015, she was transferred to prison to serve her previous sentence and was released from Zanjan Prison on October 7, 2020, using the law reducing prison sentences.
Zia Nabavi, another civil activist, wrote on Twitter that twenty days have passed since Narges Mohammadi’s arrest and interrogation in solitary confinement, and during this time, “new cases have been opened against her.”
Narges Mohammadi has long been deprived of the right to hold a passport, leave the country, and visit her two children who live in France.
Source: Radio Farda
