Qazvin woman Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani remains detained without trial after torture and forced confessions

Hengaw – Thursday, June 4, 2026

Two months after her arrest, Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a resident of Alvand in Qazvin Province, remains detained without trial in Qazvin Central Prison (Choobindar). She is being held in poor psychological condition after being subjected to severe physical abuse and forced to make self-incriminating confessions during interrogations.

According to information obtained by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Hashemi Bazargani has faced serious accusations during interrogations conducted by Iranian security agencies, including “insulting the Supreme Leader,” “espionage,” and “collaboration with Israel and the United States.”

A source familiar with the case and close to her family told Hengaw that security forces used physical violence, beatings and torture to extract forced confessions. Videos of these confessions were later broadcast by Qazvin’s provincial state television network as part of what the source characterized as a security-driven narrative.

The source added that the intense physical and psychological pressure has left Hashemi Bazargani in a severely deteriorated mental condition while in prison.

Mojdeh Hashemi Bazargani was arrested on Friday, April 3, 2026, after government forces raided her home in Alvand. Despite the passage of two months since her arrest, judicial authorities have neither clarified the status of her case nor issued a bail order that would allow her temporary release pending legal proceedings.