Anisha Asadollahi

Anisha Asadollahi is a labor activist and translator. She was arrested and sentenced to prison several times for supporting workers' rights.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='25689'> Dozens of those present in the international workers day gathering in front of the parliament were arrested. They were sent to Evin (Section 209), Fashafooye and Qarchak prisons. Most were released after a few days. The arrest order for the rest was extended for a week, 10 days and one month periods. The arrests led to domestic and international protests. Students who had organized a meeting to protest the continued arrests were attacked by the Student Basij, a pro-government paramilitia </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='25690'> She was arrested again </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26014'> Was sent to the general population </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26013'> Was released on bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27706'> According to the Free Union of Workers, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Afshari, sentenced her to one year in prison and 74 lashes. According to the report, six months of the prison sentence and 74 lashes, have been suspended. Also, three months of her prison sentence turned into two months of service to the veterans and writing a transcription of the court-appointed book. These types of sentences are known as "alternative punishments." The remaining three months of her sentence is enforceable </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28315'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-23300/'> Was arrested to serve his sentence and sent to Evin prison </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28684'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-23496/'> She was released after serving her sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39202'> <reference source='https://t.me/kanoon_nevisandegane_iran/844'> Anisha Asadollahi and Keivan Mohtadi were arrested at their home. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39274'> <reference source='https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSyXWApXoAAAnmr?format=jpg&name=large'> Ammaar Cyber Base wrote: Reza Shahabi and Maryam (Anisha) Asadollahi are under interrogation with charges related to "collaboration and connection with a group aimed at subverting the state". According to this report, after the arrest of Reza Shahabi and Anisha Asadollahi, the Ministry of Intelligence claimed: > These two labor activists were in contact with Cecil Coller, a member of the French Federation of Labor Education and Culture, and her husband, who entered Iran with a tourist visa and are in the custody of this organization. They were cooperating with each other in an effort to overthrow the state." They have also been accused of "forming an anti-security cell with the aim of inciting workers, teachers and people to create chaos in the country. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41192'> <reference source='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9d2kmjna7uo'> Radio of the Islamic Republic announced the arrest of Cecil Coller and Jacques Paris by publishing a video and attributed the protests of Iranian teachers to them. In this report, Cecil Coler and Jacques Paris were accused of organizing "riots and disorder" and Eskander Lotfi, Masoud Nikkhah, Shaaban Mohammadi, and Rasoul Bodaghi, teachers' union activists, were linked to these two people. Also, in this video report, the relationship between Cecil Coller and Jacques Paris with Reza Shahabi and Anisha Asadollahi was mentioned. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39374'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3PsUTq1'> Amir Raisan, the attorney of Reza Shahabi, Anisha Asadollahi, and Keivan Mohtadi, told Sharq newspaper that the second branch of the Security Prosecutor's Office has linked this case to security crimes. He says that it is not clear "which related authority published the pictures of my clients and other detainees with what permission; Because according to Article 96 of the Criminal Procedure Law, it is forbidden to publish the image of the accused at this stage for the media and law enforcement and even judicial authorities." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39421'> <reference source='https://t.me/kanoon_nevisandegane_iran/848'> The Writers Association of Iran issued a statement condemning the Ministry of Information's false charges and wrote: > It is no secret that this type of case-making has only been used to deceive public opinion, prepare the ground for forced confessions and produce fake documents, issue long-term sentences and intimidation and repression. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39834'> IPA sources reported that the arrest warrant of Keivan Mohtadi and Anisha Asadollahi was extended for one more month. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40053'> An informed source told Atlas that Anisha Asadollahi was kept in solitary confinement for 33 days. She was then transferred to another cell in Ward 209 of Evin and was kept in that cell along with several other people. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40319'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CfJ_dxRqAv0/'> According to the workers' union of Vahed Bus Company, the authorities of Evin prison did not allow the families of Reza Shahabi, Hassan Saeedi, Anisha Asadollahi, Keivan Mohtadi, and Reyhaneh Ansari to visit. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40318'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CfYKLCOuBKy/'> In an open letter, a group of the families of the recently detained trade union members and laborers demanded the release of the detainees, mentioning the two months of temporary detention with solitary confinement, and the prohibition of visits. In this letter, while condemning "false charges by intelligence agencies" and "shameful and illegal broadcasts", they considered the threats and insults of prison officials and interrogators in dealing with detainees and their families as a clear example of "torture". They asked the supporters and institutions defending the rights of workers and teachers in Iran and the world to defend the basic rights of the detainees. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41191'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36432/'> According to HRANA, she was transferred from ward 209 of Evin Prison to the women's ward of this prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41208'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/workers-unions-called-for-releasing-unionists-in-iran/31984064.html'> According to Radio Farda, more than 130 trade unions from 40 different countries in the past week have written protest letters to the leader of the Islamic Republic, the head of the judiciary, and Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, demanding the immediate release of all imprisoned union and trade union activists, and announced that workers all over the world are closely following the situation in Iran. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41510'> <reference source='https://t.me/ettehad/104354'> She was released on bail. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42483'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3VaYCez'> IRNA, the official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, published a part of the video of the forced confessions of Cecil Coller and Jacques Paris on its Twitter account, and claimed that these "two French spies" had "revealed behind the scenes of laying the groundwork for chaos in the country". In this forced confession video, Cécile Coller first introduced herself as an "operational intelligence agent at the General Directorate of Foreign Security (DGSE, the French intelligence service)" and said that she and her husband traveled to Iran "to prepare the conditions for the revolution and the overthrow of the Islamic regime." Also, her husband Jacques Paris said in this forced confession video that the "goal" of the French Foreign Security Organization is "to put pressure on the Iranian government". Also, in this video, which was published by state-TV and Al-Alam TV channel (an Arabic news network affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization), the images and names of Reza Shahabi, Hassan Saeedi, Anisha Asadollahi, Keivan Mehtadi, Rasoul Bodaghi, Davoud Rezavi, Eskander Lotfi, Shaaban Mohammadi, and Masoud Nikkhah, labor activists and teachers are shown. The release of this video took place while the Islamic Republic was involved in a global wave of Iranian protests against the government, which began after the murder of Mahsa Amini in the Morality Police Detention Center. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42501'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/AnishaAsd1989/status/1578090250865344533?s=20&t=sAPK7M1FKW9d0jcIgnfscw'> Anisha Asadollahi announced on her Twitter account that she will file a complaint against the state TV and the Ministry of Intelligence for airing a video of forced confessions that was published under the title "The Story of a Mission". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42509'> <reference source='https://t.me/vahedsyndica/4875?single'> The Vahed Bus Company workers' syndicate issued a statement calling the published video of the forced confessions "absolutely false and baseless" and said that Cécile Coller and Jacques Paris are members of one of the independent labor-teacher unions in France "and following their arrest, their union has strongly declared all the government's fabricated accusations against them to be pure lies and demanded their release." They said the travel of Cecil Coller and Jacques Paris to Iran was legal and public and that the meeting of Iranian labor and trade union activists with them was a "usual trade union custom" and added: > The security and the interrogator/journalists tried in vain to ignore the nationwide protests of the people and trying to link it to such baseless scenarios. The statement continues: > We have said many times, and all the trade union organizations of Iran and the world and all the defenders of trade unions, labor, and human rights have also stated many times, that such scenarios, hostage-taking, and airing confessions on TV have been ineffective in the public mind for years. The authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested a number of the most famous labor and teacher activists in Iran five months ago with such tired scenarios and kept them in solitary confinement and under interrogation for a long time. In previous statements, we said this old scenario was completely neutralized by the brilliant resistance of Iran's labor activists and teachers and clearly explained the repressive nature of the wave of arrests and false cases that were brought against them. In this statement, the Workers' Union of the United Company also emphasized that there was no connection between the arrested workers and teachers with any government or government institution in any country in the world. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='48211'> <reference source='https://ir.voanews.com/a/canada-labor-union-khamenei-human-rights-iran/6928221.html'> According to Voice of America, the Canadian Union of Public Service Workers announced in a letter to Ali Khamenei that the charges attributed to all prisoners related to labor organizations, human rights defenders, and protesters who were detained in clear violation of international laws should be dropped unconditionally. The Voice of America also wrote that, while expressing great concern over the continued detention of activists in Iran, the union has strongly condemned the repression of protesters and the execution of political prisoners in recent months. According to the Voice of America report, Reza Shahabi, Davoud Razavi, Hassan Saeedi, Keivan Mohtadi, Anisha Asadollahi, Rasoul Bodaghi, Jafar Ebrahimi, Eskandar Lotfi, Reyhaneh Ansarinejad, Shaaban Mohammadi, Mohammad Habibi and Masoud Nikkhah are mentioned in this letter. It also states that the recent heavy sentences, including 6 years of imprisonment for Reza Shahabi, Hassan Saeedi, and Keivan Mohtadi, are very cruel. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='48056'> According to an Atlas source, Anisha Asadollahi was summoned to the second investigation branch of the 33rd District Prosecutor's Office of Tehran (Evin) to present the last defense. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50377'> <reference source='https://t.me/kashowra/16134'> According to the Coordinating Council of Teachers' Associations of Iran, Anisha Asadollahi was summoned to Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided by Iman Afshari. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50936'> <reference source='https://t.me/kashowra/16353'> A number of trade union activists and defenders of workers' rights meeting with the family of Mohammad Habibi were arrested by the security forces at his house. According to the Coordinating Council of Teachers' Associations of Iran, Reyhaneh Ansarinejad, Asal Mohammadi, Hirad Pirbodaghi, Anisha Asadollahi, Sarvenaz Ahmadi, Kamyar Fakour, Hassan Chertabi, Zhaleh Rouhzad, Ahmad Heydari, and Oldouz Hashemi are some of the activists who were arrested by security agents and sent to prison. According to the officials, they were transferred to the follow-up office of the Ministry of Intelligence in Shahryar. According to the story of Khadijeh Pakzamir, the wife of Mohammad Habibi, during this arrest, the physical condition of one of the attendees deteriorated due to the attack by the security forces, and despite asking the agents to call the emergency services, he was initially taken to the follow-up office of the Ministry of Intelligence in Shahryar, and after his condition worsened again, he was transferred to Imam Sajjad Shahriar Hospital. According to this report, after an hour of searching, inspecting, and confiscating Khadijeh Pakzamir's laptop and mobile phone, she was also transferred to the follow-up office of the Ministry of Intelligence in Shahryar. According to Ms. Pakzamir, after she and other arrested people were questioned for several hours about this meeting, she was released at around one o'clock in the morning on April 29 along with a large number of detainees, but the other 9 people were transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison and kept in solitary confinement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51036'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/42o8qW0'> Fars News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, confirmed the news of the arrest of Anisha Asadollahi and Reyhaneh Ansarinejad, introducing these labor activists as "members of an organizational meeting consisting of elements with records of affiliation with Marxist anti-revolutionary groups, MKO, and French spies." The "French spies" referred to by Fars are Cecil Coller and Jacques Paris, a French couple imprisoned in Iran. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51035'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/Shailinaam/status/1655568823888519169'> Shaylene Asadollahi announced in a tweet that her sister Anisha Asadollahi was released on a bail of 10 billion rials. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51211'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/S7L15SGDJ1jnKc5/status/1657993726793228289'> He was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison. In the story on his Instagram account, he reported that his attorney received the written notification of the verdict and that it has been virtually submitted in the Sana system, and wrote: The verdict of the case last year... five years and eight months in prison: five years for the charge of assembly and collusion and eight months for propaganda against the state. Anisha Asadollahi explained that Judge Iman Afshari, head of branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, considered her Instagram story against the execution of Mohsen Shekari and Majidreza Rahnavard as instances of the crime of propaganda against the state. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52966'> <reference source='https://t.me/vahedsyndica/5268'> The primary court's decision was confirmed by the Court of Appeal verbatim. According to the workers' union of Vahed Bus Company, Anisha Asadollahi was sentenced to five years and eight months in prison by the Court of Appeal for two charges of assembly and collusion, and propaganda against the state. According to this report, this sentence was sent to the first branch of the Moghadas Court (Evin), but the letter of introduction to prison has not been issued for her. By applying Article 134 of the Criminal Code, five years of this ruling will be enforceable. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='52999'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/aliasadollahi87/status/1684146768559177729?s=20'> Ali Asadollahi announced on Twitter that his Sister Anisha has reported to Evin Prison to serve her sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>