Tabriz; Armita Pavir, a student, arrested and sentenced to 22 months and 17 days in prison

Armita Pavir, a student activist and one of the detainees of the Women, Life, Freedom movemen

15 December 2023 21:40

 

Hengaw: Friday, December 15, 2023


Armita Pavir, a student activist and one of the detainees of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, who recently went on a hunger strike in Tabriz Central Prison, was sentenced to one year, ten months, and seventeen days in prison by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Armita Pavir, a student activist of Azerbaijan Civil University, was recently dismissed has been sentenced to one year and three months and on day on the charge of "insulting Khamenei in cyberspace", and in seven months and sixteen days on the charge " Propaganda activity against the Islamic Republic of Iran" and a total of one year and 10 months and 17 days of penal servitude by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Azarshahr.

According to the Consolidation of Sentences Law and if the sentence is approved by the Court of Appeal, the harshest punishment for Armita Pavir will be one year three months, and one day in prison.

Armita Pavir, the arrested student of Molecular Biology at Tabriz Civil University, started her third hunger strike in Tabriz Central Prison on Friday, November 3, 2023, which destabilized her health condition.

This student from Tabriz was sent to "Imam Reza" hospital in Tabriz in the middle of the third period of her strike due to her worsening condition and was returned to the prison without permission to complete the treatment period. She ended her first hunger strike, which began on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, with the promise of the prison authorities to look into her legal status and conditions of detention.

Armita Pavir has been continuously under pressure, to the extent that Mehboob Alilu, the public prosecutor and revolution of Tabriz, has so far put pressure on her to file a case.

This student was arrested by the security agents in Tabriz on Thursday, September 21, 2023, and was taken to the central prison of this city. She was arrested for the first time on October 31, 2023, during the protests, by the security forces in front of the Tabriz Civil University, and on December 8, 2023, she was temporarily released from Tabriz Central Prison with a bail of 250 million tomans until the end of the proceedings.


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