Elham Modarresi

Elham Modarresi is a poet living in Tehran. She was arrested mainly for her posts on social media during the national uprising in 2022.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='45455'> <reference source='shorturl.at/cmry2'> Elham Modarresi was arrested by seven Intelligence Ministry agents in Kraj without a warrant. According to an IPA source, her mother was initially trying to prevent her arrest, but the agents drew a gun on her and held it to her head, and only left her alone after Elham Modarresi agreed to go with them. Her arrest was during the national uprising triggered by the murder of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl from Saqez, by the morality police in Tehran. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45463'> <reference source='shorturl.at/cmry2'> She was transferred from Intelligence Ministry's Pardis detention center to Kachooei Prison. According to an IPA source, Despite Ms. Modarresi's bad health, her interrogations have continued in prison. In one of the interrogation sessions, due to constant pressure, her condition becomes unstable, but the interrogators ignore her situation and without offering her medical service, they just dragged her on the floor to her cell. In another session, She suffered internal bleeding and despite her transfer to a hospital outside of prison, she was returned to prison without any treatment. Being aware of her emotional dependence on her brother, the interrogators would also tell her that her brother is being tortured in the next room. Another time they threatened to hit her brother with a car. During the time she was detained, judiciary officials would refuse to offer any answers to her family about her condition. According to the IPA source, she was denied access to attorney from the time of her arrest and was not even appointed one. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45464'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/senateur61/status/1604809423918186496?t=zGxI8NeTpuae4i5VC9dHGA&s=19'> A French senator accepted her political guardianship. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45462'> <reference source='https://images.app.goo.gl/x1Y8NUUu316FcbKg8'> She released an audio file from Kachooei Prison in Karaj in which she mentioned her terrible physical and mental health. She said the prisoners are completely ignored. The prison has low-quality food and water and she is being denied medical treatment. Also, the prison doctor is not capable of diagnosing and writing prescriptions, so he suggests multivitamins, even though multivitamin is very bad for her kidney disease. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45465'> <reference source='shorturl.at/cmry2'> Elham Modarresi went on a dry hunger strike in response to the lack of medical treatment and being detained without a decision while she is suffering from liver disease and kidney inflammation. An IPA source reported that she requires regular monthly tests to control her disease. But the case investigator is denying her medical treatment and transfer to the hospital. IPA source reported that the doctors at Rajaei Shahr Prison have tested her and confirmed her serve illness. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45456'> Elham Modarresi's sister Nahid Modarresi announced on Twitter that a day after her sister went on hunger strike, Kachooei Prison guards pressured ELham Modarresi by beating her and denying her phone privileges so that she would end her hunger strike. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45638'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-38897/'> Elham Modarresi, Armita Abbasi, Fatemeh Harbi, Jasmine Haj Mirza Mohammadi, Fatemeh Nazarinejad, Shahrzad Derakhashan, Fatemeh Jalalpour, Niloufar Shakeri, Hamideh Zarei, Niloufar Kordouni, Somayeh Masoumi, Ensiyeh Mousavi, Maedeh Sohrabi, Fatemeh Mosleh Heidarzadeh, and Marzieh Mir Ghassem are in their fourth day of hunger strike in Kachooei Prison. According to HRANA, the prisoners went on hunger strike in protest of the lack of decision and long-term detainment, unsanitary conditions of the prison, spread of diseases such as fungal dermatological problems, lack of medical treatment, overpopulation of women's ward, lack of access to an attorney, and unfair sentences for some of them. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46126'> <reference source='https://ir.voanews.com/a/6923236.html'> The chief of the judiciary of Alborz province Hossein Fazeli claimed that Elham Modarresi has been charged with acts against national security by making Molotov cocktails. VOA reported: "Three of the arrested protesters confessed that Ms. Modarresi has encouraged them to gather grenades, guns, money, and protest in front of Rajaei Shahr Prison. In part of her confessions, she said that she is a member of a Telegram group and learns from it. According to an IPA source, Ms. Modarresi has not confessed and has expressed complaints about the fake charges in person and in writing. Even if there were confessions, they were done under severe physical and mental torture while taking advantage of her illness and bad health. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46125'> <reference source='https://kurdpa.net/fa/news/2023/01/75'> She was released from Kachoodi Prison temporarily on bail until her trial. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47808'> <reference source=''> The Islamic Republic's Judiciary issued a memo that announced the beginning of the process of releasing some of the protesters arrested during the 2022 national uprising. According to the judiciary's Mizan website, and latest comments made by the spokesperson for the judiciary, this "pardon" is in honor of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and contingent on the prisoners expressing regret; The pardon is not extended to cases with charges such as "connection to dissident groups", and "destruction of public property". However, many of the released prisoners have posted videos and notes saying they never requested a pardon and never expressed regret. There are even videos of female activists taking off their hijab and chanting against the Islamic Republic in front of the prison moments after their release. The release of prisoners being called a pardon has caused massive reaction online and some activists on social media and human rights organizations consider it a PR stunt to repair some of the damage to Ali Khamenei's image. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>