To serve her 5-year sentence, Leila Hosseinzadeh summoned to Evin’s Sentence Implementation Unit
10-January-2022
Category: Freedom of Expression، Prisoners، Women
9-January-2022
Newsgroup: Freedom of Expression – Women – Prisoners – Repression –
Breathing in Confinement: On January 8, 2022, the former political prisoner and student activist, Leila Hosseinzadeh was summoned to Evin Court’s Sentence Implementation Unit to serve her sentence. The summon states that she must appear within five days in Sentence Implementation Branch. She had previously been sentenced to five years in prison.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, to serve her sentence, Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student activist and former political prisoner, was summoned to the Evin Courthouse on January 8, 2022.
According to the summon issued by Branch 1 of the Sentence Implementation Unit of the Evin Court, headed by Judge Amir Hossein Tarian, Leila Hosseinzadeh must report to this Branch within 5 days.
She has been summoned to serve her sentence despite having been released previously from prison because of her serious disease and being unable to endure her prison sentence.
Ms. Hosseinzadeh has been sentenced to five years in prison for participation in a rally held in front of Sharif University of Technology on the occasion of the birthday of Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, an imprisoned Gonabadi dervish, as well as joining in the group singing of the anthem “Khoon-e Arghavanha”.
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Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Mohammad Reza Amouzad, sentenced her to five years in prison as well as two years of being banned from any activities in social media on charge of “conspiracy to act against the security of the country.” The sentence was upheld by Branch 36 of the Court of Appeals in Tehran in December 2021.
Leila Hosseinzadeh had been previously arrested on December 7, 2021, while on a trip in Shiraz.
Ms. Hosseinzadeh had been arrested for the first time during the January 2018 protests and 16 days later, on January 18, she was released on bail. In March 2018, she was 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.” In June 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, 30 months of this sentence was applicable to her.
Leila 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 30-month sentence. She was sent on sick leave from Evin Prison on March 11, 2021, and finally, with the application of a new directive of the Judiciary, was released because of her inability to endure her prison sentence.