Maryam Afrafaraz
Age: 31
Activities/Rights: Civil activist
Status: Released on bail
Judicial status: 95 days imprisonment/case at retrial
Violations: Arbitrary arrest and detention, lack of due process, unfair trial
Maryam Afrafaraz is a civil activist and member of the Imam Ali Popular Student Relief Society. On 14 August 2021, she along with other activists and lawyers went to file a complaint against the National Task Force Against Coronavirus and the Supreme Leader at the Tehran Citizen’s Rights Protection Association for their mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to sources, 15 forces and two judicial officials entered the meeting and arrested all seven claimants. Maryam was released on a bail of 500 million tomans on August 29. She later said that the investigator asked security institutions what the charges against them were a week into their arrest, demonstrating the complete lack of due process.
On 20 June 2022, Maryam was sentenced to 95 days imprisonment by Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Her sentence was upheld by Branch 36 of the Tehran Appeals Court on August 16. On 1 February 2023, her lawyer tweeted that her request for a retrial had been accepted and would be heard by a court of equal standing.