Farahnaz Nikkhou

Farahanaz Nikkhou, an employee of the Iranian Telecommunications Department, was arrested at the Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran at the same time as the nationwide uprising of Women, Life, Freedom. Ms. Nikkhou's family did not know about her fate until several months after her arrest.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='56516'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.info/774025'> At Imam Khomeini Airport, when she was planning to travel to Australia to visit her daughter, she was arrested and forcibly disembarked from the plane by the security forces of the IRGC Intelligence without providing a legal warrant. Zamaneh Radio quoted Nikou Jalilvand, the daughter of Farhanaz Nikkhou, and wrote that Ms. Nikkhou called her brother in Iran after 12 hours and informed him about her arrest due to "personal enmity and some explanations". According to the Zamaneh radio report, despite the follow-up of Nikkhou's family members and their visits to all Tehran prisons, the Revolutionary Court, many government bodies, and even hospitals, they had no information about where she was detained. In the report that HRANA published more than a year later, it is stated that Ms. Nikkhou was transferred to Ward 2A of Evin Prison after her arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56517'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.info/774025'> After a few months of being completely unaware of the fate of Farhanaz Nikkhou, she said during a call to her family that she spent all this time in solitary confinement. Nikou Jalilvand, the daughter of Ms. Nikkhou, told Radio Zamaneh that during the interrogations, her mother was pressured many times to admit that she was in contact with Israel: > They cuffed my mother's hands and feet and sat her on a chair with blindfolds on and used very vulgar curses. My mother said that she was interrogated four to five times a day and was under intense mental and emotional pressure. "After she was transferred to the general population ward and her court-appointed lawyer was able to visit her, she said that if this situation continues and she is returned to solitary confinement, she would commit suicide. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56520'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-47654/'> According to HRANA she was transferred to the women's ward of Evin Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56519'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.info/774025'> According to Zamaneh Radio, after a month and a half of detention in Evin's general population ward, Farhanaz Nikkhou's brother failed to visit her because she was transferred to the prosecutor's office. According to this report, in the same day Ms. Nikkhou called her brother, she said that she was transferred to the detention center of Evin prison for questioning and that she will not be allowed to have family visits or phone calls. In the report published several months later, HRANA wrote that Ms. Nikkhou was transferred to the detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence known as Ward 209 of Evin Prison for two weeks and was interrogated by this security institution. This is despite the fact that the organization in charge of her case is the IRGC Intelligence Organization. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56518'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.info/774025'> In an interview with Nikou Jalilvand, the daughter of Farhanaz Nikkhou, Zamaneh Radio published a report about the conditions of arrest and prison of Ms. Nikkho. Nikou Jalilvand told Radio Zamaneh that her mother was allowed to have a visit from her brother in person after she was transferred to the general population ward. According to Ms. Jalilvand, Ms. Nikkhou has lost about 10 kilos in prison and has become extremely thin: > Farahnaz Nikkhou was denied medical services during her detention and despite severe chest pain, her requests to go to a doctor were denied by the interrogators. She had stomach bleeding once in prison when she was in solitary confinement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56522'> <reference source='https://x.com/VOAfarsi/status/1716563556265550329?s=20'> In an interview with the Voice of America TV, Nikou Jalilvand announced that after the news of the arrest of her mother, Farhanaz Nikkhou, was published in the media, Ms. Nikkhou was deprived of the right to contact her child by the order of the authorities. According to Ms. Jalilvand, after Ms. Nikkhou was transferred to the detention center again, she was supposed to spend at least 10 days in solitary confinement. Also, Nikou Jalilvand, referring to the problem of her mother's stomach bleeding, announced that Ms. Nikkhou does not have access to the necessary medical services. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56521'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-47654/'> HRANA wrote that despite the passage of 482 days since her arrest, Farhanaz Nikkhou is still in the women's ward of Evin prison. According to this source, her court session has been held several times at the 15th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Salavati, on charges of espionage, but these sessions were not official and instead of a trial, she was asked irrelevant questions. HRANA's source added that Ms. Nikkhou is in a bad mental condition. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>