Mona Amri Hesari

She is one of the individuals, arrested during the suppression of Baha’i citizens in Golestan province in 2012

<coverage-outsourcing id='19322'> Thirty-two Baha’i citizens, residing in different cities of the Golestan province, were arrested and placed on under pressure to accept the charges against them,beginning in September, during a year-long project called, ‘socializing with muslims and propagating for Bahaism.’The names of those arrested are as follows: Sheida Ghodousi, Pouneh Sanaei, Farahnaz Tebyanian, Farahmand Sanaei, Kamal Kashani, Behnam Hassani, Soudabeh Mehdinejad, Hana Aghighian, Shiva Rohani, Mitra Nouri, Nazi Tahghighi, Parivash Shojaei, Maryam Dehghan, Tina Mohebati, Payam Markazi, Foad Fahandezh, Siamak Sadri, Mona Amri, Roufia Pakzadan, Mozhdeh Zohouri, Parisa Shahidi, Houshmand Dehghan, Farhad Fahandezh, in Gorgan; Shahnam Jazbani, Shohreh Samimi, Navid Moalem, Kamelia Bidelian in Minoodasht; Bita Hedayati, Hana Koushk Baghi, Vesagh Sanaei, Farhad Eghbali, Kourosh Ziari in the city of Gonbad Kavous </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11553'> According to a report by Justice For Iran, the arrested had no access to attorneys or legal counsel during the time of their arrest and because of the ambiance that was created by the security forces, the recourse of some families to lawyers was ineffective and left unanswered. Security agents had told one of the lawyers in Gorgan, “their verdict has been issued beforehand, why do you want to take on their case?” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11478'> Twelve Baha’i citizens that were arrested in Golestan province, wrote a six page letter to the Attorney General of Golestan, describing the tortures that they suffered and requesting a review of this situation </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11415'> Was arrested in Grogan </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11424'> According to a verdict given by judge Mohsen Ghanbari of the second branch of the Revolutionary Court of Gorgan, Shahnam Jazbani and Sheida Ghodousi were, each, condemned to 11 years incarceration and Farokh Tebyanian, Pouneh Sanaei, Mona Amri Hesari, Behnam Hassani, Parisa Shahidi, Mozhdeh Zohouri, Parivash Shojaei, Tina Mohebati, Hana Aghighian, Shohreh Samimi, Bita Hedayati, Vesagh Sanaei and Hana Koushk Baghi, each, to nine years in prison and Roufia Pakzadan, Soudabeh Mehdinejad, Mitra Nouri, Shiva Rohani, Houshmand Dehghan, Maryam Dehghan, Nazi Tahghighi, Kamelia Bidelian and Navid Moalem to six years in prison. In this court hearing 24 Baha’i citizens were condemned to 193 years imprisonment in total on charges such as, “membership in illegal organizations” and “propagating against the state” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11444'> According to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, those arrested in Golestan province were tortured by interrogators of the Intelligence Ministry and 12 other individuals that were arrested on different dates were met with verbal and emotional abuse </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11564'> Vahid Moshgani Farahani, the attorney for a number of those charged in this case, told Justice For Iran that his clients have told judge Ghanbari during the court hearing that they take back their statements because they were given in interrogations that “put them under pressure and took away the use of their free wills”. But judge Ghanbari didn’t accept these statements and gave the heavy sentences of incarceration based on the charges brought upon them by the Ministry of Intelligence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11489'> Ten Human Rights organizations, in a collective letter, asked the European leaders to demand from Islamic Republic of Iran the suspension of the verdicts against the 32 Baha’i citizens of Golestan, and to open an inquiry by an independent investigator into the torture and abuse that they prisoners suffered during their interrogation </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11455'> Second branch of the Appeals Court of Golestan province cleared 24 of the Baha’is of the Golestan case of the charge of “contact with the Israeli government” </coverage-outsourcing>