Without an appeals court being held, Payam Shakiba was summoned to serve his sentence
28-December-2021
Category: Prisoners
27-December-2021
Newsgroup: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: On Monday, December 27, 2021, the former political prisoner, Payam Shakiba was summoned by Branch 1 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office- District 33, to serve his sentence in Evin Prison. On September 20, 2021, Mr. Shakiba had been sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court to 13 months in prison as well as 2 years of ban from leaving the country. He has been summoned to serve his sentence without being notified of the appeal court’s verdict.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Monday, December 27, 2021, Payam Shakiba, a former political prisoner, was summoned to serve his sentence at Evin Prison.
Mr. Shakiba had been previously sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, headed by Judge Iman Afshari, to 13 months in prison as well as a 2-year ban on leaving the country, a 2-year prohibition from membership in groups and parties and seizing his cell phones and laptops, for repeating the offence of propaganda against the regime.
On September 26, 2021, Mr. Shakiba had been notified of the verdict and had appealed it. So that the case was to be heard in Branch 36 of the Court of Appeals, but he was summoned to serve his sentence without a court hearing being held and without being notified of the appeal court’s ruling.
Payam Shakiba had been arrested by security forces in Tehran on June 14, 2021, and was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Center in Ward 209 of Evin Prison to be interrogated. He was finally released on July 4, 2021 on 100 million Toman bail, awaiting the trial. Mr. Shakiba was summoned to Evin Court on August 21, 2021, to present his final defense.
He was summoned to Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran on September 8, 2021, and after being tried on September 20, the abovementioned sentence was issued against him.
Previously also, Payam Shakiba had been arrested by security forces on February 22, 2017. Later in December 2017, he was sentenced by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran to 11 years in prison on charges of “acting against national security through conspiracy and propaganda against the regime.” The verdict was later upheld by the Court of Appeals. While in prison, a new case was opened against him, and the intelligence service prevented his release. He however, was released from Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj on February 3, 2021, after being acquitted in the new case.