Maryam Ebrahimvand is on hunger strike in Evin prison
23-April-2020
Category: executions، Women
Breathing in Confinement: To protest against her prolonged detention and her uncertain condition, Maryam Ebrahimvand, has been on a hunger strike at Evin Prison since Tuesday, April 22.
Maryam Ebrahimvand, a screenwriter, producer, and film director has been in temporary detention since July 2018. And since Tuesday, April 22, she has been on hunger strike, protesting against the uncertainty of her condition in the last 2 years, reported Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran.
“Ms. Ebrahimvand has been detained since July 2018 and is still unaware of her circumstances. That is why she attempted a hunger strike, requesting her status to be determined,” an informed source reported to Breathing in Confinement.
It needs to be mentioned that Maryam Ebrahimvand is the movie producer of “Humor of Love”, “We Are All Alone”, “Girls’ Pension” and “September 24”. She was arrested by the IRGC intelligence agents in September 2016 at her workplace in Tehran, because of the production of the “September 24” movie. After 35 days, however, she was released on bail of 300 million tomans. Nearly two years later, she was re-arrested and initially was sent to Qarchak Prison in Varamin, and after 21 months to Evin Prison in Tehran.
It is noteworthy that the movie “September 24” is about the Mena incident in Saudi Arabia, which as per Ms. Ebrahimvand, had been approved by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance.