Maryam Akbari Monfared

Maryam Akbari Monfared was arrested for her family history. Three of her brothers and her sister were executed in the 1980s for cooperating with MKO. A family member says the reason for Ms. Monfared’s arrest was a few phone calls to her brother and sister in MKO’s Ashraf camp in Iraq. Her other brother Reza has also been arrested several times.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='762'> Two days after the 2009 Ashoura demonstrations, she was arrested by the security forces and moved to solitary confinements in ward 209 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8131'> She was transferred to women's ward in Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8436'> Her trial was at Judge Salavati's court. The judge didn't allow her to hire a lawyer and during the trial once told her that "{the right of} hiring a lawyer does not include you". According to her letter to Ahmad Shahid, the judge also told her that: > You are paying the price for the crimes of your brothers and sisters. Bring her children here so that they will start crying and we get to watch </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8437'> She was sentenced to 15 years in prison and banishment. According to Harana, Judge Salavati had told her that the verdict was issued with regards to "Islamic Compassion". According to her husband, they did not see the verdict, "but according to them reading it, the charges were public disturbance, acts against national security, propaganda against the regime, and war against religion, but we do not exactly know what her charges are" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='764'> For her sentence of prison in banishment, she was transferred to Rajayi Shahr prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8440'> She co-wrote an open letter along with other political prisoners about the "inconceivable" events and conditions in Gharchak Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8439'> She was transferred to Gharchak prison in Varamin along with other female political prisoners of Rajayi Shahr. According to "Peace Activists' in Exile Campaign", she describes this prison as a place to break the prisoners' spirit, where the prisoners are encouraged to spy on the political prisoners </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='766'> She was returned to women's ward in Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8441'> According to "Zamaneh", her request for temporary leave from prison was approved and bail was set for 1 billion and 150 million tomans. But at the last moments when her children were already expecting her at home, her leave was denied by the order of Secretary of Intelligence. They kept her bail payment however for two years </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8132'> Her brother and nephew, Reza and Ali Akbari Monfared were arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8442'> Harana reported that she was transferred to a treatment center outside of the prison due to her Thyroid and eye problems </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8443'> According to Harana, Security forces and judicial authorities are preventing the implementation of article 134 in her case, and the 38th branch of the supreme court has confirmed her sentence before the introduction of an attorney or preparing a defense. According to this report, if Article 134 is applied, her sentence would decrease to four years and she will be released immediately </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8444'> Her husband, Hassan Jafari, told Harana that despite his wife's illness, the authorities are not doing anything for her continued treatment. According to this report, she is still being denied of temporary leave, and not receiving medical treatment </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8445'> In a letter to her brother, she talked about her feelings and concerns, and condemned the missile attacks on Liberty Camp. The letter was published by "Hambastegi Melli" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8446'> The Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners reported that the Supreme Court is deliberating on Maryam Akbari Monfared's case </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12156'> According to some reports, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Zahra Zahtabchi, and Sedigeh Moradi have published a letter condemning the attacks on Camp Liberty </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8890'> Published a text about "Mother's Love" and "Justice and fighting for Justice" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8447'> According to Zamaneh, she has recently requested a trial for the third time. َnd in response to her interrogators who advised her to ask for pardon, she has questioned them about the execution of her brothers and sister in the 80s: > Do I have to apologize for your execution of my brothers and sister? </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8448'> Zamaneh reported that she has been denied conditional release, which prisoners can apply for after spending half of their prison sentence without any records. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9440'> "No to Prison, No to Execution" reported that she was moved to ward 209 for interrogation in the last days of August. According to this report, The interrogators asked her questions about the women's ward and her plans for after her release </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9672'> She filed an official lawsuit regarding the execution of her family members in the 80s. The content and documents of the lawsuit are saved in the Supporting Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10237'> Amnesty International announced that the prison authorities will not allow her to leave the prison to go under treatment for her thyroid and Rheumatoid arthritis. According to this statement, the prison judge told Monfared family that the reason behind this decision is that she has become "lippy" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9671'> In a letter, she invited the families of other executed political prisoners during the 80s to follow up on the people responsible for the executions, the names of those buried, and publication of the official indictments. This letter which has been published by "Justice for Iran", is documented in the Supporting Evidence section </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9680'> She along with several other political and ideological prisoners once again was denied their once a month visitation. Harana reports that Mr. Mardani, warden of Rajayi Shahr prison in Karaj, had asked Hassan Sadeghi, Reza Akbari Monfared, Adel and Shamim Naimi, and Paymon Kooshk Baghi to wear prison uniforms and wear handcuffs and shackles in order to visit Fatemeh Mosanna, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Elham Farahani, and Azita Rafi Zadeh who were incarcetaed in Evin prison. But the prisoners refused </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='9673'> According to Justice for Iran Organization, in response to Maryam Akbari Monfared's lawsuit, the prosecutor asked her what does she expect to find out: > Those who executed her brothers and sister are either dead or too old, and her brothers and sister are probably buried in Khavaran. According to him, such lawsuits are ineffective and can only make her conditions more difficult, or create an obstacle for her release or temporary leave </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10203'> In a letter to the U.N Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, Reza Akbari Monfared objected to the fact that Maryam Akbari Monfared was denied visitation due to her lawsuit. This letter was published by "No to Prison, No to Execution". Later it was revealed that at the time of the writing of this letter, Maryam Akbari Monfared's visitation with her brother was denied but she was still allowed visitation with he family. In a previous letter, Reza Akbari Monfared had said that the mandate on political prisoners for wearing prison uniform and wearing handcuffs and shackles during visitation, is a "trick" by the regime which practically denies political prisoners their visitation </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10110'> Twelve prisoners of ward 4 in hall 12 of Rajayi Shahr prison in Karaj announced their support of Maryam Akbari Monfared's lawsuit and demand for justice. This letter was published by Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Activists in Iran, and is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page. The signatories are as follows: Reza Akbari Monfared, Saeed Shirzad, Mohamad Ali Mansouri, Behnam Mousivand, Saleh Kohandel, Saeed Masouri, Javad Fouladvand, Hassan Sdeghi, Shahin Zoghitabar, Ali Moezzi, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, and Khaled Hardani </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10080'> The International Campaign for Human Rights published parts of her letter to a judiciary official, in which she says the threats have no effect on me and "during these seven years in Evin and Gohardasht and Gharchak Varamin prisons I have witnessed and heard of such crimes that now I am the one who can make threats, not you." She emphasized that "currently my main goal is to have justice and vengence for the execution of my innocent brothers and sister" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10632'> In a letter to Mr. Hajiloo, the prison's supervising judge, Maryam Akbari Monfared strongly criticized him for accusing her family and her of "lying", and she called "the regime" of Iran "a lying and deceitful state" which commits "crimes in the name of Islam and Sharia". She ends her letter by saying: > There's no reason for me to lie when my whole family has been massacred. Lying is for you. It's from the same cloth as you. You who are willing to resort to any lie and deceit and cruelty in order to hold on to your power and status. This letter is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10399'> Harana published another letter from her, in which she has asked the Tehran judiciary to respond to her lawsuit regarding the mass executions of 1988. This letter is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10411'> Hassan Jafari told Iran Wire that "They have not denied her visitations yet, but they keep threatening her to do. They also refuse to send her to a hospital or to see a doctor. She has bladder issued, her arms and legs are painful because of her rheumatism, and she has a dentist appointment but they say she can't go because of this letter" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10566'> Harana reported that once again the Rajayi Shahr's political and ideological prisoners have been denied visitation of their family members who are imprisoned in Evin </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10788'> According to Harana, an event was held for "The International Day of Human Rights" in the women's ward. In this gathering, Atena Daemi, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Mahvash Shahriari, Fahimeh Arafi, Sotoodeh Fazel, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Fatemeh Mosanna, Golrokh Iraee, Fariba Kamal Abadi, Mahin Izadi, Reyhaneh Tabatabaee, Ameneh Jaberi, and Narges Mohammadi made speeches and had discussions regarding human rights issues </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11104'> The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that Maryam Akbari Monfared has written a letter asking the "International organizations, especially the United Nations" to" form a fair court and prosecute those responsible for the 1988 mass executions, and not allow Ahmad Montazeri's sentence to be executed" </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11738'> According to Harana, she is in bad physical condition, to a point that she told her family that she "cannot sleep at nights because of the pain" from her rheumatoid. According to the report, She was under medical treatment before her complaint letter was published, but after that, her medical treatment was stopped as retaliation by the prosecution </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12864'> According to Harana, in protest to Shahnaz Akmali's arrest, Narges Mohammadi, Atena Daemi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, and Golrokh Iraee sent a letter from the Women's Ward of Evin Prison demanding her immediate and unconditional release </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13153'> “Justice For Iran” reports that she filed a complaint, with the UN, in connection with the execution of her family members in the 80s </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13453'> Twenty Iranian and international human rights organizations demanded a stop to the "suppression and persecution" of people who seek justice for the "terrible human rights violation" in the 1980s. The signatories demanded the overturn and release of Maryam Akbari Monfared, Raheleh Rahemipour, Ahmad Montazeri, and Mansoureh Behkish </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13985'> In a letter addressed to her family she spoke of her hardships on her eight norouz in prison. “When I think about the separation and longing suffered by us for what crime? Only one thing gives me solace, the hope that the end of cruelty and oppression is freedom” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15207'> In a letter about the forthcoming presidential elections, she strongly criticised the regime and the transitioning government and called them the “culprits of poverty and destitution” in the country. The letter that has been published by Radio Zamaneh, can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15722'> Amnesty International announced, with the publication of a statement, that Maryam Akbari Monfared has been threatened with three years imprisonment and exile in Sistan and Balochistan, for her efforts to seek justice for the systematic massacre of political prisoner in the eighties. This organization demanded the release of Ms. Akbari Monfared </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16863'> Maryam Akbari Monfared, in a letter addressed to the ambassadors that had visited Evin prison, and some of them had given to praise in their interviews, described, as an eyewitness, the “hell” that was prison in Iran. This letter, published by HRANA, can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18263'> She wrote a letter to the parents of children who went to the scaffold and were executed in the eighties, praising their patience and stamina. This letter, published by HRANA, was entitled, “Your Scream Will Not Go Unheard”, can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18242'> Along with other political prisoners in the women's ward of Evin Prison, they released a statement expressing concern about the transfer of political prisoners to Rajaei Shahr Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18576'> Hrana reports that prisoners Atena Daemi, Golrokh Iraei, and Maryam Akbari Monfared have sent a letter from prison asking for international human rights organizations and activists to help them and support their hunger strike. The letter in part says that “In the Islamic Republic of Iran many voices have been silenced, and many innocent people have been killed. Many rights have been taken away from people and many unfair sentences have been issued, and the only weapon remaining for prisoners is the hunger strike”. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18844'> Atena Daemi, Golrokh Ebarhimi and Maryam Akbari Monfared, wrote a letter asking human rights activists and organizations to put their efforts in demanding the nullification of the verdict against Mohammad Ali Taheri and demanding his freedom </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19692'> According to Justice for Iran, the UN Working Group for Enforced Disappearance in a letter addressed to the government of Iran, requesting information about the fate of Roghieh and Abdolreza Akbari Monfared and their place of burial </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20089'> Hrana published a letter from Golrokh Iraei. Golrokh Iraei, in this letter, has assessed the acceptance of Maryam Akbari Monfared's complaint about the executions of the 80s by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances as a positive step and called on the families of the executed to petition as private plaintiff, the same as Ms. Akbari Monfared </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20105'> Atena Daemi released a letter in which she considered the acceptance of Maryam Akbari Monfared's complaint by the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances and not forgetting the victims, as a prelude for “establishing justice”. She added in her letter: > Many of the current policies of the IRI is a reminder of the times of Hitler and the Nazis, who considered Jews as scapegoats, and now Kurds, Sunnis, Mujahedin, Fedaian, Baha'is and civil activists have become the IRI’s scapegoats </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20875'> HRANA published a letter from her in support of Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee. In addition to this letter, she has also written other letters. Atlas has not recorded all of them </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21483'> Maryam Akbari Monfared began a three-day hunger strike in support of Golrokh Iraei </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27079'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/statements/a-426/'> Seventeen political prisoners in the Women’s Section of Evin published a statement to condemn the behavior shown by judicial and security apparatus to those political prisoners who are also mothers. A quote from the statement: “In all these years, the misogynist government has fought women and mothers who stand up for freedom and justice. That the fight continues is itself a sign of increasing awareness and acceleration of women’s struggles and protests. There are many examples. Just in the last few months, we saw the arrest of Farangis Mazloom, despite her sickness, because she was defending her son, Soheil Arabi. Alireza Shirmohammadi’s mother, because she didn’t have the 80 million toman to post bail, lost her son in prison. Rahele Asl Ahmadi, because she wanted freedom for her daughter, Saba Kurdafshari, was arrested; and many other cases.” </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29250'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-23868/'> Mrs. Akbari Monfared was deprived of visiting her family for three weeks. She has been notified of this deprivation, which was issued due to a request for investigating one of the new inmate's situation </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='31039'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-25138/'> Mrs. Akbari Monfared was verbally summoned to Branch 2 of the investigation department on the charge of "chanting the slogan on February 11, 2020." Ms. Akbari Monfared objected to attending the meeting due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, deficiency of written notification, and also the presence prohibition of a lawyer during the interrogation process </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='32425'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-25517/'> According to HRANA, 35 political women prisoners are currently being kept in the women's Evin Prison ward. They face problems such as limited access to medical services, rarity and high prices of goods, low-quality food, etc. After the coronavirus's pandemic, prisoners are responsible for preparing masks and gloves. In the prison store, each mask or pair of gloves is sold to prisoners at a price of between eight and ten thousand tomans. Detergents and disinfectants are also given to the prisoners rationally. Still, the prisoners have to buy these materials from the store due to the lack of these items. The prison store sells Alcohol and other disinfectants at high prices, so some prisoners buy these substances together. The quality of food is low, and most prisoners are forced to buy food from the prison store. Maryam Akbari Monfared, Atena Daemi, Raheleh Ahmadi, Saba Kord Afshari, Niloufar Bayani, Sepideh Kashani, Fatemeh Mosanna, Zahra Zahtabachi, Monireh Arabshahi, Yasaman Ariani, Mojgan Keshavarz, Aras Amiri, Samaneh Norouz Moradi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Hengameh Shahidi, Rezvaneh Ahmad Khanbeigi, Sepideh Farhan, Sepideh Gholyan, Maryam Ebrahimvand, Neda Ashtiani, Zahra Jamali, Fariba Adelkhah, Mozhgan Kavousi, Mozhdeh Negahdar, Elham Barmaki, Masoumeh (Minoo) Ghasemzadeh Malek Shah, Maryam Haji Hosseini, Nazanin Toosi, Mina Saki, Mira Radpour, Leila Raouf, Hajar Siamifar, and Soroush Ahmadi Khosravi are among the 35 women prisoners currently being kept in the women's ward of Evin Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='35047'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3eqxGVi'> She was exiled from Evin Prison to Semnan Prison. HRANA reported that on the first day of her arrest she was held at Anti-Narcotics Police jail and interrogated by Information Ministry agents. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40151'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-35443/'> HRANA reported that Maryam Akbari Monfared has requested a transfer to a prison near her hometown. Although Semnan Prison has approved her request, the Evin prosecutor’s office has opposed her transfer. Ms. Akbari Monfared is being held in Semnan Prison in violation of the crime discrimination code. She also suffers from fatty liver but has been denied transfer to medical centers. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40853'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5374/'> According to Iran Human Rights Organization, Ms. Akbari received a summons to attend court to be arraigned on the charge of propaganda against the state, but since it was not sent to his attorney, she refused to attend the court session. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40854'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5374/'> A source told Iran Human Rights Organization that a new summons was issued for this date, but Ms. Akbari’s attorney Hossein Taj has objected to it for violating legal scheduling and therefore the session will be canceled. The source added that after these events, the prison officials told Maryam Akbari that she must go through the process of requesting an attorney again, but she refused to sign any paper in protest of this decision. According to the source, Ms. Akbari, her family, and her attorney are all unaware of the reason for the new accusations. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40855'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5374/'> An informed source told Iran Human Rights Organization that prison authorities are preventing contact between ordinary prisoners and Ms. Akbari and are trying to isolate her. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42211'> She released a letter in response to comments made by Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi, the attorney general of the Islamic Republic in the 1980s during the mass executions, who said: > The families of the executed could have filed complaints but they didn't. > In her letter published by HRANA, Ms. Monfared writes: Maybe you forgot, but let me remind you that the families were not even allowed to hold a funeral. You'd arrest the families and the guests at the funeral and lock them up. You didn't give the families the bodies of their loved ones, nor you told them where you buried them. Now three decades after your massacre, you talk about complaints? Now that I have brought a lawsuit after three decades, what have you done to me besides threats, exile, and illegal incarceration? We have risen for justice so no other families lose a loved one. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41541'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5432/'> She was assaulted by a prison authority. A source told Iran Human Rights Organization said by the order of the prison warden, Ms. Akbari's daughters were previously allowed to visit their mother without wearing the prison veil, but in the recent visit, they were told rudely that without a veil they will not be allowed visitation, which led to protest from Akbari Monfared family. Sources report that at the same time Fatemeh Hosseinipour, the visitation hall chief tried to return Maryam Akbari Monfared to her ward, but she resisted. Eventually, she started to assault Ms. Akbari severely and choked her to the point of losing consciousness. According to the source, the police were called into prison and Maryam Akbari Monfared and her husband Hassan Jafari were threatened with a new lawsuit for "riot in prison". The report goes on to say that eventually with Ms. Monfared's resistance, and intervention from the warden, she was able to visit with her family. According to Hassan Jafari, Ms. Monfared's arm and neck were bruised from beating and strangling. The police were brought in by a complaint from deputy warden Majid Kordi, but with the intervention of the warden, Alaei, the case was closed. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41594'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/iran-maryamakbarimonfared/32006122.html'> Her husband Hassan Jafari told Radio Farda that she has fatty liver and due to prison food she cannot have a good diet. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41608'> <reference source='https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5444/'> She was denied visitation for three months. Iran Human Rights Organization wrote that the sentence was issued without a disciplinary committee or clarifying the violation. The source added that Ms. Monfared can only make phone calls to her family in the presence of a security guard. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42168'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.info/729719'> Zamaneh reported that prison officials have denied her a visit from her attorney before the trial. According to the sources, Ms. Akbari was initially told she is denied visitation for three months, but in the written document it says three weeks. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52383'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/golrokhiraee/status/1675842671372300288?s=20'> The Twitter account of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraei, a political prisoner in Evin prison, announced that Maryam Akbari Monfared is facing a new case brought against her. Based on this tweet, she has been charged with propaganda against the state. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52382'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/golrokhiraee/status/1675842662077722624?s=20'> She was transferred from Semnan Prison to Evin Prosecutor's Office in Tehran, and after receiving the five charges, she was returned to Semnan Prison again. Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraei's Twitter account, while announcing this news, reported that Maryam Akbari Monfared has been accused in this new case of propaganda against the system, assembly and collusion, disseminating lies, insulting the leader, and encouraging people to disturb the public order of the country. According to this thread of tweets, during the investigation sessions, Ms. Akbari Monfared was informed that the examples of the accusations against her are the letters, expressed support, reports, and news that have been published about her in cyberspace and the media. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53067'> <reference source='https://shorturl.at/bryY2'> A group of Iranian political and social activists protested against the reopening of the case against Maryam Akbari Monfared, who has been in prison for more than 13 years, and demanded her release. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>