Aaliyah Motabalzadeh was denied phone calls "following a complaint" about solitary confinement

Alia Motabalzadeh, a photographer and women's rights activist who, along with 16 other political and ideological prisoners, had protested her solitary confinement, has been denied the right to make phone calls to her family.

On May 1, 17 political and ideological prisoners in Evin and Rajai Shahr prisons filed an official petition with the ward offices of these prisons, complaining about their imprisonment in "solitary cells."

These prisoners, among whom are Alia Motabalzadeh, Keyvan Samimi, Farhad Meysami, Arash Sadeghi, Saeed Eqbali, and Reza Mohammad Hosseini, have mentioned the length of their imprisonment and demanded punishment for the perpetrators, orderers, and issuers of their arrest and detention in solitary confinement.

Alia Motabalzadeh, who was transferred to Evin Prison to serve her sentence on October 10, 2020, amid the coronavirus outbreak in Iranian prisons, has been denied the right to make phone calls after the publication of the news of her complaint, according to a report by HRANA news agency.

Ms. Motabalzadeh, the vice president of the Association for the Defense of Press Freedom in Iran and a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was sentenced to three years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in 2017 on charges of "gathering and colluding against national security" and "propaganda against the system."

Source: Radio Farda