Saeed Eghbali is transferred to Evin Prison to serve his five years sentence
4-June-2020
Category: Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement: After being summoned, Saeed Eghbali, one of the detainees of January 2018 uprising, was arrested on May 31, 2020, and was transferred to Evin prison to serve his five years sentence.
To be transferred to the jail, Saeed Eghbali, a civil society activist, was arrested on Sunday, May 31, 2020, at Evin Prison Branch of the Law Enforcement Court, reported Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran.
At his home in Kermanshah, Mr. Eghbali was arrested by the intelligence agents on February 1, 2018, and was transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. On April 11, 2018, however, he was temporarily released on a bail amount of 100 million Tomans.
In September 2019, he was tried by the Revolutionary Court in Tehran and was sentenced to 6 years in prison. And later in March 2020, the ruling was upheld by the appeal court. Pursuant to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, the maximum sentence of five years’ imprisonment is enforceable for the charge of “conspiracy, gathering, and collusion against the national security”.