Human rights activist on
trial for contact with UN special rapporteur
Saeed Mohammad Ibrahimi, a human rights activist
in the field of women’s rights and a member of the “Grieving Mothers of Laleh
Park Committee”, has been summoned for trial in branch 28 of Tehran’s
revolution court. A source close to this activist’s family said he is facing charges of “propaganda against the state” through “connections with
Ahmad Shaheed and families of political prisoners”. Mohammad Ibrahimi is an
example of the prisoners undergoing harsh tortures in Evin Prison referred to
by UN Special Rapporteur Ahmad Shaheed. Ibrahimi was arrested on 13 December 2010 by Ministry of Intelligence
agents for measures against national security, insulting the leader and waging
soft war against the state, and suffered nervous breakdowns for his long
detentions in solitary confinement. After spending 8 months in solitary
confinement of Evin wards 209 and 240, while also undergoing physical and
psychological torture, he had lost his short-term memory for 8 months and could
not even recognize his own family members.
On a five year prison term
he received back in April 2012, Ibrahimi has been placed under pressure in
prison to deny news reports about being tortured.
It is said that seven other prisoners,
including those still in jail and others released, have also been summoned to
court. (NCRI – Apr 8, 2015)
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