Tehran Activist Samaneh Asghari Receives One-Year Prison Sentence
Samaneh Asghari, a Tehran resident and advocate for women's and children's rights, has been sentenced to one year in priso
Hengaw: Saturday, December 16, 2023
Samaneh Asghari, a Tehran resident and advocate for women's and children's rights, has been sentenced to one year in prison by the Islamic Republic of Iran's judiciary.
According to a report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Samaneh Asghari, a former board member of the Children’s Rights Protection Association, to one year of imprisonment, inclusive of her prior days in detention.
She was initially apprehended at her Tehran residence on September 14, 2023, and subsequently taken to Ward 209 of Evin Prison, recognized as the Intelligence Department's detention center. On October 9, she was transferred to Qarchak Varamin Prison. On October 1, she secured temporary release on one-billion-toman bail until the conclusion of legal proceedings.
A student of industrial engineering at Kharzmi University, Samaneh Asghari, was initially arrested on October 11, 2022, during the Women, Life, Freedom movement (Jin, Jiyan, Azadi). After enduring six months and sixteen days of imprisonment, she was released from Qarchak Varamin prison on April 24 of the current year, following the issuance of a so-called "amnesty" directive.
