Samin Ehsani

Samin Ehsani is a children's rights activist and a Bahai citizen in Tehran. She was sentenced to five years in prison in 2011. One of her crimes was holding educational classes for Afghan children in Iran who were denied education.

<coverage-outsourcing id='40087'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35352/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Branch 28 of the revolutionary court of Tehran presided by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh sentenced Samin Ehsani to five years in prison on the charges of propaganda against the state, assembly and collusion to commit crimes against national security, and membership in illegal groups. The report does not clarify whether the five years in prison sentence is for all the charges together or only one. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40086'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35352/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Samin Ehsani was arrested after arriving at Evin court. According to HRANA, after her arrest, the security forces went to her house and after searching it, confiscated some of her personal belongings including a computer and other items related to the Bahai faith. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40089'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2012/hranews/1-12261/'> Samin Ehsani was released on bail of one billion and 850 million Rials after a month. HRANA reported that she spend the first 11 days in solitary in the 2-Alef ward in Evin Prison and the rest in cells with other prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40088'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2012/hranews/1-12261/'> The appeal court of Tehran confirmed her sentence verbatim. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40091'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35352/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Samin Ehsani was transferred to Evin Prison to serve her sentence </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='41342'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36515/'> After Asal Mohammadi and Samin Ehsani contracted coronavirus, they were denied sufficient medical treatment. HRANA reported that Ms. Ehsani and Mohammadi have been transferred to Evin quarantine. According to the report, "They still haven't received any medicine and the prison gave the prescriptions to families of the prisoners to get the medicine." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='42794'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/KayzadJafari/status/1581635383967637505'> Her husband Kizad Jafari tweeted that Samin Ehsani told him in a phone call that she wasn't hurt during the Evin fire. During the countrywide protests in Iran in reaction to the murder of Mahsa Amini, parts of Evin Prison were set on fire on October 15th, 2022. A number of prisoners lost their lives, and some were wounded by the bullets shot by the prison guards. A number of prisoners suffered poisoning from breathing in the smoke and tear gas. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='42793'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/KayzadJafari/status/1582661745705127937?s=20&t=FNvKw6yskAR2KdquvFWEHQ'> After the supreme court approved the retrial request of Samin Ehsani and referred the case to a court of the same rank, branch 36 of the revolutionary court of Tehran confirmed the primary court's sentence against the Bahai prisoner verbatim. Her husband tweeted: > They said were supposed to clear her base on the supreme court ruling, but it wasn't possible. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='46150'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnlxaw7Kyhk/'> In a report on human rights violations in Evin Prison on her Instagram page, Narges Mohammadi reported that Samin Ehsani spent 25 days in solitary. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='49258'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/32235249.html'> In an open letter, 30 political and thought prisoners in Evin Prison's women's ward demanded a stop to the execution of protesters and unfair sentences. The signatories also asked the Iranian people to make efforts to stop the executions and suppression of protests. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='49202'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Ghazzallz/status/1636001602489184257'> Samin Ehsani went on furlough. She returned to prison after a week. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='50722'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/Crdl_ZmqUgW/'> Narges Mohammadi's Instagram page published a report entitled "Not just lack of justice and independence, but not even an iota of humanity exists in the judicial branch", in which it describes the psychological pressure on Sameen Ehsani and her five-year-old daughter due to the imprisonment of this Baha'i citizen and the abolition of visitation for mothers and children in prison. The report of Narges Mohammadi is recorded verbatim here: > The 36-year-old Sameen Ehsani's face-to-face visits with her five-year-old daughter are the most painful days of visitation in the women's prison. Nina's separation from her mother is accompanied by sobbing and impatience, sometimes by hooking her small hands around her mother's neck and sometimes by grabbing the handles and doors of the prison. Every time Nina is separated, it seems as if she is doing her best so that people may have mercy and allow her to stay in her mother's arms for more than her monthly ration. I think to myself, is it possible for a person to witness such a moment and make it continue and then go see their own child? Every day, as soon as her mother's phone time is over, Nina starts using sweet language so that her mother might hold the phone in her hand longer. I have often seen that the moment the mother and the little girl say goodbye, my friends shed tears. What is Sameen's accusation? She is a Baha'i and worked in a group of human rights activists. She was arrested in 2011 and after serving 25 days in solitary confinement she was sentenced to five years in prison. After 11 years and after she gave birth to a child, she was brought to prison in 2022 to serve her sentence. Her sentence was overturned by the Supreme Court, but she is still in prison. Samin has worked in the field of child labor, child marriage, and obtaining pardon from the plaintiffs for minors sentenced to death, and now she is witnessing that her oppressed and homeless child is paying the price for her mother's efforts for the children of her country, the most damaged, oppressed and homeless children of this land. The judicial branch does not have the slightest independence, what is more painful is that it does not have an iota of humanity. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='51865'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/news-1/116782'> Samin Ehsani's prison sentence was converted into an open verdict, and she was released from prison. According to IranWire, Mrs. Ehsani will spend the rest of her imprisonment outside the prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>