Raha Ahmadi

Raha Ahmadi

She and a group of people accompanying him had distributed flowers among the people to support the prisoners opposed to compulsory Hijab; the video is available under the ‘evidence’ section. This led to his arrest

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='27346'> 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='27347'> She was arrested and transferred to Qarchak Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='27757'> <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='33165'> <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>