Raising concern about Leila Hosseinzadeh’s condition; Deprivation from her medication and having been beaten during her transfer from Shiraz to Tehran
20-December-2021
Category: Students
18 December-2021
Newsgroup: Students – Repression –
Breathing in Confinement: On Saturday, December 18, 2021, in a short phone call to her family, Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student union activist, reported her poor physical condition. Ms. Hosseinzadeh stated that following her arrest, she had not been given the ampoule she was regularly taking. She added that she had been injured as a result of being beaten by security forces during her arrest as well as her transfer to Tehran.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Saturday, December 18, 2021, in a short call to her family, Leila Hosseinzadeh, a student union activist, reported her transfer to Ward 209 of Evin Prison and her poor physical condition. She also said that she had not received her medication for the past ten days, and that she had been beaten by security agents during her arrest as well as her transfer to Tehran.
Leila Hosseinzadeh suffers from a serious disease that requires her to take special medication, but according to her family and lawyer, she has not yet had access to her medication.
Leila Hosseinzadeh was arrested by a large number of security agents on the night of Tuesday, December 7, while was on a trip to Shiraz. During her arrest, her cell phone and that of her companions were confiscated. Ms. Hosseinzadeh had been denied the right to call her family since the time of her arrest.
Concurrently, Fars news, the news organ of the Revolutionary Guards, reported the arrest of a number of citizens, calling them “Some people in Shiraz, related to foreign counter-revolutionary groups and networks led by L.H.”
As of this writing, the reasons for her arrest and the charges against her are unknown.
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.
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 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.