Sara Tabrizi
Sara Tabrizi was a resident of Tehran. In the last weeks of her life, she was under intense psychological pressure from the security agents. Ms. Tabrizi's body was found in her father's house in Tehran one day after receiving a summons to the Ministry of Intelligence. Her suspicious death received a big reaction in the media and social networks.
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56474'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202403284737'> A few months later, Iran International wrote that Sara Tabrizi was released from Evin prison after about 10 days of detention and at the end of the interrogations, after posting a bail of 10 billion Rials. A source close to Tabrizi's family told Iran International about her interrogation days: > After her release, Sara told her friends that she was threatened in the interrogation room that if she did not cooperate with the agents, they would transfer her to a solitary cell again, and they would release the private contents of her mobile phone publicly so that it reaches her family. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56473'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202403284737'> While she was planning to travel to England, she and another citizen were arrested by security agents at Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran and transferred to the detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence known as Ward 209 of Evin Prison. A few months later, while announcing this news, Iran International wrote, quoting a source, that Sara Tabrizi spent the first three days of her detention in solitary confinement, and after that, due to the stress of being alone in solitary confinement, she suffered from heart palpitations and high blood pressure. First, she was transferred to Evin Prison's Ward 209 and then to a three-personer cell in the detention center of this security institution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56475'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202403284737'> She was summoned again and after several hours of interrogation, she was transferred to the women's ward of Evin prison. According to Iran International, after a few days, her bail amount increased from 10 billion Rials to 20 billion Rials. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56476'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202403284737'> Iran International wrote a few months after this event that Sara Tabrizi was temporarily released from prison until the verdict was issued. According to the report of Iran International, sometime later, she was tried and sentenced to a suspended sentence in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran headed by Iman Afshari, on charges including insulting the leadership and using forged documents and a passport belonging to another. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56478'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202403284737'> According to Iran International, she was summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence after receiving a summons for March 24, 2024. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56477'> <reference source='https://www.iranintl.com/202403284737'> Her lifeless body was found in her father's house in Tehran. While announcing this news, Iran International wrote, quoting its sources, that Sara Tabrizi was repeatedly pressured by the security forces over the phone to cooperate and was threatened that if she did not cooperate, the content of her personal phone would be published publicly and they would expose her online. According to this report, in its initial report, which was delivered to Sara Tabrizi's family in the presence of security agents, the cause of her death was stated to be the ingestion of pills, but according to an informed source, Tabrizi's family did not find any pills or empty containers next to her body or in her room. They still don't know if she took pills and committed suicide or had a heart attack out of fear of being summoned again to the Ministry of Intelligence, or if the agents killed her and she is a victim of government murder. Also, this source stated that Sara had told her family that the interrogator of the case had provided her with a number to provide them with information about her private life and personal information that she was leaving Iran with. The evidence indicates that Sarah was under heavy mental and emotional pressure from the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in the last weeks of her life. According to this source, after her last summons, Ms. Tabrizi said that she was very scared and would not report to the Ministry Intelligence in any way. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='56479'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/yj4479xt'> According to IranWire, her body was buried in Eskaman in Tehran province. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>