Leila Mirghafari

Leila Mirghafari (Khadijeh Mirghafari) works in the human rights field and has, so far, been arrested several times

• <coverage-outsourcing id='15292'> She was arrested in the protest rally in front of Evin prison and Dena Tires. A little while later, she was sent to Gharchak prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15291'> HRANA reported that, she, and several other women who were arrested in the rallies in front of Evin prison and Dena Tires were released from Gharchak, Varamin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15293'> HRANA reported that she will be tried, tomorrow, along with several other civil and human rights activists, at branch 1060 of the Criminal Court 2 of Tehran on the charge of “disturbing public order” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15294'> Judge Farshid Dehghani, sentenced her and 17 other individuals arrested in the protest rallies of 2015, to 91 days incarceration and 74 lashes of the whip. The sentences were suspended for all these individuals, except for Masoud Hamidi and Farideh Tousi </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15295'> A report was published about her arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15514'> According to the Human Rights in Iran’s website he was she was released from Evin prison on a 50 million Toman bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19163'> She was arrested. Behnam Ebrahimzadeh wrote on his Facebook page that Leila Mirghafari was arrested in front of the special clerical court, “was severely beaten and abused”, and was forcefully taken to a psych hospital. According to Mr. Ebrahizadeh’s writings, in the psych hospital Leila Mirghafari’s hand and feet were tied at all times except when she has fresh air time, and in their efforts to extract a confession they pretend that her criticism of the system stems from her mental and psychological condition </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20012'> She was released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='24320'> She was tried and sentenced to two years of suspended prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27366'> Heavy sentences were meted out to three women’s rights’ activists: Mojgan Keshavarz, Yasaman Ariani and Monire Arabshahi. A few days later, a number of women’s rights’ activists went to Tehran Metro and gave flowers to passengers. Mojgan Keshavarz, Yasaman Ariani and Monire Arabshahi had used the same method to show their protests and that’s why they were punished </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26845'> She was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27756'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/m-tehran/'> According to the IPA, seven of this case’s defendants were sentenced by the Branch 15 of the revolutionary court to two to eight years in prison. Saman Zandian and Moyin Hajizade were convicted of “gathering and collusion against security, propaganda against the regime and insulting the Supreme Leader” and sentenced to eight years in prison (each); Leila Mirqafari got five years on the charge of “gathering and collusion against security.” Four other defendants, named Raha Ahmadi, Armin Soorani, Vahid Qadirzadeh (Qadiri) and Mohammad Abolhasani were convicted of “gathering and collusion against security” and got one to two year of discretionary sentences. After application of the Article 134, Saman Zandian and Moyin Hajizade will have to face five years. For other defendants, all the sentences need to be carried out </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33158'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-27073/'> HRANA reports the problems of women political prisoners in Qarchak prison. According to the report, the political prisoners transferred to Qarchak prison to pressure them without observing the separation of accusations. At least 16 defendants and political prisoners are being kept in this prison without observing the principle of separation of accusations and being deprived of basic facilities. Also, the inferior quality of prison food, lack of necessary facilities, the problem of the prison sewage system, constant shortage of freshwater, lack of medical and sanitary facilities, especially after the outbreak of coronavirus, lack of medical deployments, and high prison density cause many problems for These prisoners. Seventeen women prisoners such as Golrokh Ebrahimi Erayi, Marjan Davari, Kylie Moore Gilbert, Elham Barmaki, Zahra Safaei, Parastoo Moeini, ‌ Forough Taghipour, Leila Mirghafari, Pirzad Hamidi Shafaq, Zohreh Sarv, Fereshteh Didani, Soheila Hejab, Samira Hadian, Gita Hor, Zeinab Alipour, Raha Ahmadi and Leila Akbari are being kept in this prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>