Marjan Eshaghi

Age: 

Activities/Rights: Student activist

Status: Out on bail 

Judicial status: 5 years imprisonment

Violations: Arbitrary arrest and detention, access to lawyer, lack of due process, unfair trial

Marjan Eshaghi is a political science student at the University of Tehran and a student activist. Along with her fellow-students, she has been part of the struggle to stop the monetisation of their universities and campaigning for the establishment of independent student organisations. She was arrested by IRGC intelligence agents on 17 November 2019 while attending a student protest on the University of Tehran campus as part of the November 2019 nationwide protests. Marjan was transferred to Ward 209 in Evin Prison, where she was subjected to interrogations for 18 days before being released on bail. On 12 November 2020, she was sentenced to five years imprisonment by Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Salavati on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security” for participating in student protests. 

On 20 February 2021, the Tehran Court of Appeals upheld Marjan’s five year sentence in absentia. While she is currently out on bail, her sentence may be enforced at any time.