Iranian women’s rights defender Saba Kordafshari was deprived of leave for three months by the Qarchak Prison Disciplinary Council for protesting against the “lack of hot water in prison.”
Former political prisoner Arash Sadeghi tweeted on Friday evening that “The meeting of the disciplinary council was held without Saba about forty days ago at the request of the warden of Qarchak Prison, Soghra Khodadadi, and she has just been informed of the council’s ruling.”
Sadeghi said that Kord Afshari has been denied leave while she suffers from ulcers and gastrorrhagia and must be sent on medical leave.
Saba Kord Afshari was recently deprived of visits for two weeks. She was having a cabin visit with her father on January 4, 2022, when her phone was cut off before they finished their meeting.
Saba Kord Afshari did not leave the visitation hall in protest and demanded to say goodbye to her father. However, prison guards headed by a man named Rashvandi pushed Mr. Kord Afshari out of the hall with disrespect and intimidated him.
Eventually, the deputy warden of Qarchak Prison, Mothani, threatened Saba to deprive her of visits.
Kord Afshari was arrested in June 2019 after she posted a video online protesting against the compulsory veiling regulation that requires Iranian women to wear a hijab covering their hair and body in public.
The Revolutionary Court of Tehran handed down a 24-year sentence for her on August 19, 2019.
The sentence included 15 years for “promoting corruption and prostitution,” 1.5 years on the charge of “propaganda against the state,” and 7.5 years for “association and collusion against national security.”
Her mother, Raheleh Ahmadi, is being held in Evin prison, also in Tehran, after being handed a 31-month prison term, allegedly for speaking out about her daughter’s fate.
