Mahdieh Golrou

She is a student activist, a women's rights activist, a member of the Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), the former deputy secretary of Tabatabai University's student organization and a member of Mehdi Karroubi's campaign. She was banned from continuing her education in Industrial Economics in Allameh Tabatabai University

<coverage-outsourcing id='579'> She was one of the four organizers of the Allameh University's Literature faculty sit-in along with Majid Dorri, Sadegh Shojaee, and Saeed Feizollahi in protest to the education ban on student activists and the militarization of the universities. The three-day sit-in which resulted in the arrest of the four caused a strong reaction from different media outlets and within universities. The Allameh University security forces assaulted and battered the protesters </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='580'> She was forcefully removed from Allameh University by the university security and was arrested by the security forces positioned around the university. She was on a hunger strike throughout her time in lockup. She was released on bail after a week </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='581'> Her trial for the Allameh University sit-in was held on the charges of "propaganda against the regime, interview with foreign media, and spreading lies". The court sentenced her to one year suspended prison sentence, and the sentence was suspended for five years </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='582'> She was arrested along with her husband Vahid La'lipour right before the Students Day. Agents went to her house on the morning of December 2nd and after two hours of searching and confiscating many personal belongings, they transferred them to Evin prison without charging them with anything. She was detained for 65 days in Ward 209 solitary cells before she was moved to Women's methadone Ward for one week </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='598'> While she was suffering from digestive diseases, she informed her family in a visitation that her health is deteriorating because she is not receiving medical treatment. Meanwhile, due to the lack of clean water, she additionally suffered colon infection </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='596'> She was tried for heavy charges such as propaganda against the regime, assembly and conspiracy against national security, and association with Mojahedin Khalgh Organization </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='597'> Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Guard sentenced Golrou to two years and four months in prison. Due to the fact that judicial and security authorities had prevented her lawyer, Amir Raeesian, from getting a letter of attorney from her, and therefore Mahdieh Golrou was forced to defend herself in court without the presence of an attorney, her sentence was sent to branch 54 of the appeal court where it was reduced to two years in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='600'> It was announced that he health is in critical condition, but the prison authorities have done nothing for her </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='599'> It was reported that despite exacerbation her colon problem in prison and informing the Medical Ward, she has not received a doctor's appointment </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='601'> Vahid La'lipour, husband of Mahdieh Golroo said that during his last visit he found out that his wife is suffering from severe physical issues (in her colon), yet medicine is not easily available to her. Prison authorities prevent the drugs from entering the prison using the excuse that they are foreign medicines </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='584'> She was transferred to the Methadone Quarantine Ward along with other female political prisoners. Methadone Ward prisoners are denied any connection to outside. The Ward hall is 30 to 35 sqm and it is monitored by CCTV. Prisoners are allowed less than an hour in the yard. The reason behind the name Methadone Ward is that it was previously assigned to drug addicts </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='585'> She released a joint statement with Majid Tavakkoli and Bahareh Hedayat from inside the prison. After the Student Day statement was published, she was summoned to court and charged with "acts and conspiracy against the regime" and received a sentence of six months in prison from judge Moghiseh. This sentence was later confirmed by the appeal court on November 2nd of 2011. Therefore, her release date was postponed from December 2011 to May 2011 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='587'> She was transferred to solitary cells </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='586'> After being denied phone calls and visitation for six months (three months by some accounts), she was visited by her family </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='592'> Her expulsion letter was issued by the university. Mahdieh Golrou became aware of this letter only a few years later and after her release from prison, when she tried to follow up on her education and go back to university. She is one of the students who was denied further education even after the Rouhani presidency </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='593'> She went on furlough after putting up 150 million tomans for bail </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='594'> While she was just released on furlough, she was arrested and returned to Evin Prison after the security forces broke into her house. Even though based on the agreement with the authorities in charge, she was supposed to return to prison on July 24th </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='588'> A letter from her to the chief of Judiciary was published in which she said, my husband has not been involved in any political activity and has only been arrested for his connection with me, and he is going to prison now. She asked Mr. Larijani to review her husband's case so that "maybe it will put an end to the punishment of families which has become a common tactic in recent years" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='589'> In a letter that she wrote to the chief of Judiciary about the case of her husband Vahid La'lipour, she stated in the beginning that "during my one year and nine months in prison, the only rights I was granted as a prisoner were two personal visits and one furlough for 48 hours" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='595'> She was released from Evin Prison at the end of her 30-month sentence. Her husband was released a week later on May 27th of 2012 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='590'> It was reported that she was arrested in connection with a gathering in protest to the series of acid attacks in Isfahan and security forces have searched her house and confiscated many of her personal belongings and her husband's. She was kept in Ward 2-A of Revolutionary Guard during her detainment </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='591'> After spending 90 days in solitary cells of Revolutionary Guard's Ward 2-1 of Evin Prison, she was released on a bail for 700 million tomans </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9114'> His appeal trial for the charge of assembly in protest to the acid attacks was held under judge Arabpour and the remaining months from his preliminary sentence by judge Salavati were changed into 10 million tomans in fines </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='32896'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CFwlQKjjwiz/'> Mahdieh Golrou released a video pointing out Tharallah Base's harassment. According to the video, Ms. Golrou has been pressured by Tharallah Base agents since 2018 to cooperate with this intelligence organization. The interrogators had asked her: > Continue your activism the same way, just cooperate with us in some cases. She was asked to cooperate on several occasions and in different places. In response, she told them that she prefers not to be an activist anymore rather than cooperate with them. One interrogator threatened that they would change her husband's suspended prison sentence and he would go to prison. As a result, she and her husband left the country. The requests for cooperation continued after they left the country and they asked her to cooperate with them on some of the Islamic Republic's projects in foreign countries. This time they threatened her and said they would publish the private photos that they got from her laptop. In the video, Mahdieh Golrou emphasized the Islamic Republic's violation of privacy and addressed the security forces saying: > Publish whatever you want. This was my life and personal choice. I liked to live that way; In contrast to your beliefs, and what you want to be implemented. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='33761'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/mahdieh_golroo/status/1336276177493876739?s=20'> Mahdieh Golrou published the image of "Raouf" one of the interrogators at the Thatallah Base. Raouf has been involved in the cases of Mahdieh Golrou and Arash Sadeghi among others. Despite her travel to Sweden, Ms. Golrou is still being harassed by this person. She has reported the harassment to Swedish officials. Evidence shows that in addition to framing political and human rights activists, he has been physically violent with the prisoners. A former political prisoner who remained anonymous says: > During my interrogation period, Raouf slapped me so hard that a couple of times after returning to my cell my nose started to bleed. He once hit me with the bottom of his shoe so hard that it cracked one of my bones. He had a leather belt that he'd use to beat me with. Sometimes he'd hit me with it for 10 minutes for no reason and curse at me and my family. The image of Raouf was found at an event reported by IRNA where Khamenei was meeting with some university students. The image of the interrogator is in the supporting evidence section of this page. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>