Dec. 1, 2016 – State agents in Kerman Central Prison, central Iran, raided the cell of two female political prisoners, Afsane Baizadi and Hajar Piri, on Monday, November 28th. These political prisoners were insulted and saw their personal belongings confiscated.
Piri was transferred to solitary confinement after she began chanting “Death to Dictator.” These two political prisoners were held in a general ward alongside other inmates in jail for drug and other dangerous offences.
It is worth noting that Iran’s so-called courts in the city of Mahabad, western Iran, sentences Baizadi to four years in prison and exile in Kerman Central Prison. This ruling was issued on Sunday, August 21st on charges of propaganda against the state, insulting the supreme leader and cooperating with Kurdish groups.
Baizadi, a college student from the city of Bukan, was arrested at her home on April 24th by the mullahs’ notorious Intelligence Ministry agents.
She was also arrested once before by the Revolutionary Guards intelligence back in September 2015 and on November 23rd of that same year she was sentenced to two years behind bars.
This sentence was decreased to two years at an appeals court hearing on Wednesday, December 29th, 2015.
Piri, 33, has been held in Kerman Central Prison since November 2007 without a single day of furlough. She has been sentenced to 17 years behind bars by the mullahs’ so-called judiciary.