Fariba Asadi

Fariba Asadi lives in Tehran. She was arrested along with Meysam Gholami and Mehran Azari for propaganda against the state by distributing banners and flyers.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='36939'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31116/'> Fariba Asadi was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents and was transferred to their lockup. She was beaten during the arrest. The security forces also arrested her husband who was cleared of the charges and released a week later. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='36938'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31116/'> Fariba Asadi and Mehran Azari were transferred to the public and revolutionary court of Qods town presided by Judge Kaviani. After the bails were set they were transferred to Qarchak Varamin Prison and Greater Tehran Prison respectively. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='36940'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31116/'> She was released on bail. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='36945'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31116/'> According to HRANA, Meysam Gholami, Fariba Asadi, and Mehran Azari were charged with propaganda against the state, assembly, collusion against national security, and membership in dissident groups. Their case was referred to the second branch of the revolutionary court of Shahriar. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='36946'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31888/'> According to HRANA, the third trial session of Meysam Gholami and Fariba Asadi will be held at the second branch of the revolutionary court of Shahriar. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37352'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-32283/'> The second branch of the revolutionary court of Shahriar sentenced Mehran Azari, Meysam Gholami, and Fariba Asadi to one year in prison with time served on the charge of Propaganda against the state, and Masoud Vazifeh to six months in prison for complicity in propaganda against the state. There is another case against Ms. Asadi at Fardis revolutionary court for propaganda against the state by distributing banners and signs. The prosecutor has objected to the sentence and has asked for more punishment. Mehran Azari and Meysam Gholami are still in Greater Tehran Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='38685'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/SoaaleSadeh/status/1481487296058871810?s=20&t=cv0CM3cTqG1KaPHlE9NdOw'> She was arrested and transferred to Qarchak Prison to serve her sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='38684'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/SoaaleSadeh/status/1498181946819686400?s=20&t=cv0CM3cTqG1KaPHlE9NdOw'> After an altercation and getting assaulted by a prisoner in the general population, she went on a hunger strike in protest of the lack of seperation of crimes. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='38686'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-34096/'> After promises from prison authorities, she ended her hunger strike. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40869'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35121/'> Due to her opposition to being transferred to the hospital in handcuffs, she was denied sufficient medical treatment. According to HRANA, Ms. Asadi suffered from heart problems, kidney disease, and rheumatism despite the order of the infirmary doctor to transfer her to a hospital, she was denied treatment for refusing to wear handcuffs. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40870'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35899/'> She was returned to Qarchak Prison from the hospital without finishing her treatment. HRANA reported that she was transferred to a hospital after her condition got worse but she returned at 7:00 am the next day without spending the treatment period in the hospital. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40868'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5360/'> Female political prisoners in Qarchak prison were transferred to the women's ward of Evin Prison by the order of Heshmatollah Hayatolgheib, the president of the Prisons Organization of Tehran province. According to the Iran Human Rights organization, the warden of Qarchak Prison Soghra Khodadadi asked the prisoners of ward 8 to get ready for transfer in a short amount of time. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41503'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36547/'> HRANA reported that she is suffering from shortness of breath, and chest and back pain and was transferred to the infirmary but due to the absence of a doctor at the infirmary, she was returned to her ward. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41502'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36547/'> She was transferred to Talwghani Hospital after her condition got worse. According to a source, Ms. Asadi's health has got worse since her transfer to Evin Prison, and despite her efforts, the authorities refused to send her to a hospital. The source says at the infirmary the staff refused to get her EKG for religious reasons (her being a woman and them being men) and returned her to the ward. Eventually, after the protests from other prisoners, they transferred her to the hospital. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41505'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36579/'> She had an angioplasty. According to HRANA, she was denied family visit at the hospital for security reasons. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41504'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36579/'> HRANA reported that she was returned to Evin Prison only a day after her surgery without finishing her recovery time. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41434'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-911/'> 16 female political prisoners in Evin Prison released an open letter about the spread of coronavirus in the women’s ward and warned about the high population density in the ward. The signatories are Hasti Amiri, Narges Adibi, Fariba Asadi, Leila Gholikhani, Ganjeh, Sepideh Gholian, Zohreh Sarv, Maliheh Jafari, Nasrin Javadi, Gelareh Abbasi, Saba Kurd Afshari, Zeinab Hamrang, Aliyeh Motallebzadeh, Shakila Monfared, Asal Mohammadi, Farangis Mazloum, and Narges Mohammadi. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41525'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/ChrMpexuzjL/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link'> A note posted on Narges Mohammadi's Instagram account reported that four female political prisoners in Evin Prison have suffered heart attacks in the past month and have been transferred to hospitals. She has mentioned Fariba Asadi, Zahra Safaei, and Farangis Mazloum. She called these events "concerning" and demanded that a team of medical experts be deployed to the women's ward. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41845'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36715/'> She was returned from the hospital to Evin Prison even though her treatment was not finished. The Angiography showed three blocked arteries but the angioplasty was not performed. There are signs of bruises on her face and she is in a bad condition. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42021'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-37022/'> She was summoned and arraigned for the charges of insulting the leader and sacrilege and insulting the authorities and prison officials. at the 3rd branch of investigation at Evin court. A source told HRANA that the case was opened after Ms. Asadi refused to wear handcuffs while being transferred to the hospital and had an altercation with the investigator. According to HRANA, attempting to escape, hide, and dance outside Evin's walls are the other foundations for the case. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42891'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-37369/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> The Prisons' Organization of Tehran province brought a lawsuit against 14 female prisoners in Evin Prison. According to HRANA, Fariba Asadi, Shakila Monfared, Saba Kurd Afshari, Forough Taghipour, Parastou Moeini, Raheleh Ahmadi, Zahra Safaei, Aliyeh Motallebzadeh, Narges Mohammadi, Marzieh Farsi, Fereshteh Sadant Mohammadi, Azam (Nasrin) Khezri Javadi, Narges Adibi, and Asrin Darkaleh are facing a new case because they refused to wear handcuffs and shackles while being transferred to court. According to the report, the Prisons' Organization of Tehran has claimed that the prisoners organized a sit-in after the officials denied their request to not wear handcuffs and shackles. The charges brought against these female prisoners are "disrupting public order, assembly and conspiracy against the state, insulting the officials, and disobeying the orders of prison guards. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45176'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-38735/'> According to HRANA, Fariba Asadi was sentenced to four years of suspended prison at the 29th branch of the revolutionary court of Tehran presided by Ali Mazloum for disrupting public order and peace, assembly and collusion against the state, insulting authorities, and disobeying prison agents. The case was brought against her while she was serving time in prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45178'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-38735/'> HRANA reported that the 26th branch of the revolutionary court of Tehran presided by Judge Iman Afshari sentenced Fariba Asadi to three months and one day in prison for an altercation with an agent. She was cleared of other charges in the case including insulting the leader, sacrilege and disrupting public order. The report states that she has been sentenced to one year in prison in absentia in another case for insulting the leader, but she has not received the sentence in writing. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46239'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnlxaw7Kyhk/'> Narges Mohammadi's report on Instagram stated that Fariba Asadi spent 18 days in solitary and was denied sufficient medical treatment. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47413'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/a_motalebzadeh/status/1623476686569234435'> She was released. On February 5th, 2023, 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>