Human Rights Activist Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraei Exiled to Amol Prison

According to Iran Human Rights, Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraei was forcefully transferred to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) solitary Ward 2A of Evin Prison after being beaten by electric shockers in Qarchak Prison on 13 December 2020. After spending 43 days under interrogations in Ward 2A, she was returned to Qarchak Prison yesterday, only to be transferred to Amol Prison hours later.

Golrokh was last arrested by security forces on 9 November 2019 at her home in Tehran and held overnight in the Vozara Detention Centre in Tehran before being transferred to Qarchak Prison. She was arrested just six months after being released from prison for her previous case. Her most recent detention is for charges she is accused of having committed while she was still in prison.

A group of political prisoners staged a protest in the women’s ward of Evin Prison following the executions of Kurdish political prisoners Zanyar and Loghman Moradi. In a case that was opened against the women, Golrokh Ebrhimi-Iraei and Atena Daemi were sentenced to two years and one month of imprisonment for “insulting the founder and leader of the Islamic Republic” and one year and six months for “propaganda against the system” by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran.

Singing songs in protest to the executions of Zanyar and Loghman Moradi were found to be “insulting the founder and leader of the Islamic Republic” and their letters from prison being published by human rights organisation were considered to be “propaganda against the system.”

Golrokh’s husband, Arash Sadeghi is being held in Rajai Shahr Prison and has been denied adequate medical care despite suffering from chondrosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer and the other health issues caused by his prolonged hunger strikes and lack of medical care following his surgery.