Nahid Shirpisheh

Nahid Shirpisheh is the mother of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the protesters killed in November 2019 country-wide protests. Since her son’s murder, Ms. Shirbisheh and several other mothers who lost their children in those protests started the “Mothers for Justice” movement. They have demanded that those who killed their children and those who ordered t

Millions of demonstrators protests in several cities of Iran, after the petrol price rise. Though, the early hours of the protests were aimed at the petrol price rise, soon after the protests turned against the government. From the earliest moments firing on protesters began in many places and security forces killed or injured hundreds. November's nationwide protests consider as the largest uprising against the government till now by many people, and the Islamic Republic's reaction admitted as the largest crackdown on non-partisan protesters <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='28582'> Bakhtiari family announced that they will host people on December 26th by the site of Pouya’s grave. December 26th is the 40th day anniversary (Shia mourning tradition) of the massacre of the November 2019 protests and therefore, many families of victims intended to hold ceremonies. Some dissident groups also called for protests on that day. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28586'> Security forces entered the Bakhtiari family home and arrested Pouya Bakhtiari’s mother, father, sister, grandmother, grandfather, an 11-year-old child, and several other family members. Some of the family members were released after a few days, but at least five family members, including Pouya Bakhtiari’s mother, sister, father, and uncle remained in custody. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28590'> After 10 days since her arrest there is still no information on her whereabouts. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28594'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/38E8BQu'> She was released along with her daughter and one of Pouya Bakhtiari’s uncles. Another uncle and Pouya’s father are still detained. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='35508'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3d2Gccd'> Nahid Shirbisheh, Mona Shirbisheh, Hourieh Farajzadeh, Pouran Nazemi, Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Kambiz Norouzzadeh, Manouchehr Bakhtiari, Ashkan Shirpisheh, Arian Shirpisheh, Sakineh Ahmadi, Hamideh Ketabdar, Javad Lal Mohammadi, Hashem Amini, Iran Allahyari, Mohammad Karimi, Mahyar Zafarmehr and his daughter, Yashar Tabrizi and his two daughters, and Ms. Namvar and her daughter were arrested by the security forces and transferred to Isfahan Prison. They were arrested in Isfahan, on their way back from the tomb of Asad Bakhtiari, one of the heroes of the constitutional revolution. Sakineh Ahmadi, mother of Ebrahim Ketabdar, one of the protesters killed in November 2019, passed out during the arrest. All of them were released a day later. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46275'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-30474/'> A number of human rights activists and Dadkhah (Justice Seekers) families were arrested and detained for several hours during a visit with the Afkari family in Shiraz. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40936'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35969/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> According to HRANA, Pezhman Gholipour’s mother Mahboubeh Ramezani, Pouya Bakhtiari’s mother and uncle Nahid Shirpisheh and Mehrdad Bakhtiari, Ebrahim Ketabdar’s mother Sakineh Ahmadi, Navid Behboudi’s mother Rahimeh Yousefzadeh, Vahid Damvar’s brother Saeed Damvar, and Mohsen Jafarpanah’s sister Somayeh Jafarpanah were arrested by the security forces in Tehran. BBC Persian also reported the arrests of Mohsen Jafarpanah’s mother Talat Meshki, Mehrdad Moeinfar’s mother Iran Allahyari, and Mohmmad Taheri’s mother Zeynab Mohammadi. Pejman Gholipour, Pouya Bakhtiari, Ebrahim Ketabdar, Navid Behboudi, Vahid Damvar, Mohsen Jafarpanah, Mehrdad Moeinfar, and Mohammad Taheri were all among the protesters killed in November 2019. According to HRANA Sakineh Ahmadi was released soon after. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42033'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36968/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Nahid Shirpisheh was denied phone calls and family visits. HRANA reported: > Ms. Shirpisheh is still in the quarantine ward of Kechoei Prison in Karaj, and by the order of the prison officials, she has been denied phone calls and family visits since three weeks ago. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40937'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36181/'> HRANA reported that Nahid Shirpisheh was transferred to Fardis (Kachooei) Prison in Karaj. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41029'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36305/'> Nahid Shirpisheh was assaulted by general population prisoners. According to HRANA’s sources: “Ms. Shirpisheh was assaulted and battered by a violent crime prisoner. The prisoner had even started to choke Ms. Shirpisheh when prison authorities separated them.” </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41281'> <reference source='https://t.me/hranews/70565'> According to HRANA, Arsham Rezaei, Reza Mohammad Hosseini, Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb, and Ali Mousanejad Farkoush wrote an open letter from Rajaeeshahr prison, condemning the continued detention of Nahid Shirpisheh and demanding her unconditional release </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41282'> <reference source='https://t.me/Tavaana_TavaanaTech/55418'> Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb, a political activist imprisoned in Rajaei Shahr prison, went on a hunger strike to protest the continued detention of Nahid Shirpisheh. In an audio file released on Tavaana's Website, he says that he will start a hunger strike on Saturday, August 12, 2022, in protest against the continued detention of Nahid Shirpisheh and will continue this strike until Nahid Shirpisheh is released. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41926'> <reference source='https://cutt.ly/SC1KN2n'> According to IranWire, Arsham Rezaei, Zaratosht Ahmadi Ragheb, Ali Mousanejad Farkoosh, and Reza Mohammad Hosseini were sentenced to two months of ban on phone calls with their families, three weeks of ban on cabin visits, and three months of ban on face-to-face visits with their families by the disciplinary council of Gohardasht Prison (Rajaei Shahr) Karaj. It seems that this punishment was issued due to the release of an open letter by these four political prisoners in support of Nahid Shirpisheh. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46034'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-37163/'> She was sentenced to five years in prison by the first branch of Karaj Revolutionary Court. According to HRANA, this sentence was issued for the charge of assembly and collusion and propaganda against the state. HRANA also reported that last week she received her prison sentence in Kachooei prison in Karaj. HRANA reported: > Nahid Shirpisheh is still being denied phone calls and family visits, and with the announcement of her prison sentence, she suffered a lot of mental problems, but they prevented her transfer to the hospital. The verdict was announced after the application of Article 134 of the Criminal Code was reported. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51051'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/nahid-shirpishe-dire-condition-of-a-justice-seeker/32397621.html'> She was exiled to Zanjan prison. While announcing this news, Radio Farda wrote: > In addition to Pouya Bakhtiari's parents, who are currently both in prison, other members of his family have also been harassed, threatened, and interrogated many times in the past two years. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51050'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/nahid-shirpishe-dire-condition-of-a-justice-seeker/32397621.html'> Radio Farda wrote that her health has been deteriorating every day in a small solitary cell in Zanjan for more than seven months. "The psychological pressures they put on her are not only limited to humiliation and solitary confinement. Nahid Shirpisheh has not been allowed yard time during all this time and she has also been deprived of phone calls." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51804'> <reference source='https://rb.gy/0f0j8'> HRANA reported that Nahid Shirpisheh is still denied phone calls and family visits. According to this report, Ms. Shirpisheh has been denied phone calls since July last year and has been denied family visits in recent weeks. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52398'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Memol82639562/status/1675561635807731714'> Nahid Shirpisheh was assaulted and beaten in Zanjan prison. Mona Bakhtiari, the daughter of Nahid Shirpisheh, tweeted the news that her mother was assaulted by prisoners in Zanjan prison, her body was bruised, and only three weeks after being transferred to the general prison, she has now been transferred to solitary confinement at her request. In this tweet, Mona Bakhtiari called the prisoners who assaulted her mother "autonomous or hired prisoners" and wrote that the officers did not intervene when the incident occurred and claimed that the images of the incident were not recorded due to the prison cameras malfunctioning. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52989'> <reference source='https://ir.voanews.com/a/pouran-nazemi-nahid-shirpishe/7179793.html'> In an interview with the Persian Voice of America, human rights advocate Pouran Nazemi stated that Naheed Shirpisheh was transferred to the general population ward due to the "pressure of public opinion", but there she was "deceitfully put in the same ward with some prisoners of dangerous crimes" and after being "beaten", she had to return to solitary confinement at her request. Mrs. Nazimi added that Nahid Shirpisheh is in a prison that she did not deserve, she was exiled to a place she has been denied family visits and phone calls. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>