Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has been sentenced in absentia to an additional one year in prison.
Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran issued a one-year sentence in absentia for political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee on the charge of “propaganda against the state.”
Amol Prison authorities informed Ms. Iraee as she is being detained in the women’s ward of this prison.
Ms. Iraee has been also punished by getting banned from membership in any political group or party and also banned from leaving the country for two years.
This latest sentence for Iraee is based on a new case filed against her while she was in detention in Qarchak Prison. She was deprived of having a lawyer from the beginning to the end of this case.
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee was reportedly not informed of the court convening to examine her case. But prison authorities claim that she had decided not to attend the trial.
Iraee’s last trial and defence in this case was held on January 24, 2021, at the 2nd Branch of the Evin Courthouse.
Judicial authorities in Iran have been handing out new charges to increase the sentence of political prisoners who are nearing release to keep them behind bars.
On April 8, 2019, political prisoner Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi was released from prison after completing a sentence she was serving since October 2016 primarily writing an unpublished story about the practice of stoning.
After she left Evin Prison, she was forced to to deposit bail of 60 million tomans for a new case which was opened against her along with Atena Daemi, by the director of Evin Prison, Ali Chaharmahali.
The new case was filed against the two activists for writing open letters criticizing prison conditions, condemning the executions of political prisoners and singing a revolutionary anthem in honor of the executed political prisoners.
In July 2019, Judge Iman Afshari of Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi to 3.7 years in prison for “insulting the supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state”. Based on Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code, they each must serve 2.1 years of the total sentence. The sentence was subsequently upheld on appeal without a hearing.
On November 9, 2019, Ms. Iraee was rearrested and taken to Qarchak Prison to serve her 3 years and 7 months’ prison term.
Golrokh Iraee was violently moved out of Qarchak Prison after a raid by 20 prison guards on ward 8 of on December 13, 2020, sent to the IRGC Intelligence Ward 2A in Tehran’s Evin Prison.
She was returned to Qarchak Prison on Sunday, January 24, 2021, told that she could not have a telephone card to call her family. On Sunday night, she was sent to exile in the Prison of Amol, in Mazandaran Province, northern Iran.
Throughout her 43-day detention in Ward 2A of Evin Prison, there was no news available on her health and conditions. Evin Prison authorities denied that she was held in Ward 2A and intimidated her family.
