Narges Mohammadi's criticism coincides with her sixth year in prison: Even giving me books is forbidden

As the sixth year of imprisonment of Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, begins, Ms. Mohammadi has announced in a letter that she is prohibited from "even giving her books" in prison.

Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, wrote in a letter marking the beginning of the sixth year of her prison sentence that she is spending this time alongside people who are "victims of poverty, corruption, tyranny, and the rule of patriarchal laws" and has "started a campaign to realize their rights."

The letter was published on the channel of Ms. Mohammadi's husband, Taghi Rahmani. Narges Mohammadi went on to say that she is forbidden from even giving her books by the order of the judicial and security authorities, adding that her birthday present this year is "to sit on my knees, look each other in the eye, and hear the voices of the colorless victims whose fate has brought pain to my bones."

Previously, in January 2018, Ms. Mohammadi criticized the issuance of a judicial order to shorten the time she could call her children in a letter to the Tehran prosecutor, announcing that she would refrain from calling them in protest.

Narges Mohammadi, vice president and spokesperson for the Center for Human Rights Defenders and a imprisoned civil activist who was recently transferred from Evin Prison to Zanjan Prison after being beaten, has faced new charges in two separate cases.

Previously, Narges Mohammadi, who had been in prison since mid-May 2015, was violently transferred from Evin Prison to Zanjan Prison after a sit-in with seven other female prisoners protesting the November massacre.

In this regard, Amnesty International has also called for the immediate and unconditional release of this human rights activist, as he enters his sixth year of imprisonment.

Previously, the United States representative called for the release of prisoners of conscience, including Narges Mohammadi and Nasrin Sotoudeh, at a periodic meeting to review the human rights situation in Iran, which is being held with the participation of representatives from 32 other countries.

Source: Voice of America