The student activist Leila Hosseinzadeh, arrested in Shiraz
9-December-2021
Category: Freedom of Expression، Prisoners، Women
8-December-2021
Newsgroups: Women – Prisoners – Repression –
Breathing in Confinement: Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist and former political prisoner, was arrested in Shiraz.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist and former political prisoner, was arrested on December 7, while on travel in Shiraz.
On Monday, December 6, 2021, Branch 36 of the Revolutionary Court upheld a five-year prison sentence for Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist and a member of the University of Tehran Students’ Union.
The sentence was issued by branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran for Ms. Hosseinzadeh’s participation in a rally held in front of Sharif University on the occasion of the birthday of Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, an imprisoned Gonabadi dervish.
Leila Hosseinzadeh was notified of her charges in September 2019 in Branch 2 of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office, headed by Judge Nasirpour.
Ms. Hosseinzadeh had previously also been arrested during the January 2017 protests to be released on bail on January 18, 2020, after spending 16 days in detention. In that case, she had been sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh, to six years in prison as well as two years of ban on leaving the country on charges of “conspiracy against national security and propaganda against the regime.” On June 24, 2019, Branch 36 of the Court of Appeals reduced her sentence to three and a half years in prison as well as a two-year ban on leaving the country. According to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, two years and six months of this sentence was applicable to her.
Ms. Hosseinzadeh was arrested by security agents at her home on July 28, 2019, and after spending ten days in one of the IRGC’s safe houses, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison to serve her two-year and six-month prison sentences.
Leila Hosseinzadeh was sent on sick leave from Evin Prison on March 11, 2021, and finally, with the application of a new directive of the Judiciary, she was released because of her inability to endure the prison sentence.