Civil activist Shokufe Azar, currently held in the women’s ward of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, has remained in a limbo four months after her arrest. She has yet to be taken to even one court hearing. This activists was arrested on June 9 along with two other activists by the names of Puriya Ebrahimi and Ghazale Shiri at a house in the town of Rudhen, east of Tehran.
An informed source said the charges raised against Azar are stated as “propaganda against the state, assembly and collusion, and forming anti-revolution groups”. The case against this 45-year old civil activists is being reviewed in branch 6 of the Evin prosecutor’s office. It is worth noting that this jailed civil activist has to this day been denied of any access to a lawyer.
(September 13, 2015)
