Nazanin Mohammadnejad
Age: 35
Activities/Rights: Women’s rights
Status: Released
Judicial status: Pardoned
Violations: Arbitrary arrest and detention, prolonged solitary confinement, access to lawyer, lack of due process, unfair trial
Nazanin Mommadnejad is a women’s rights activist who is studying for her MA in Russian at Alameh Tabatabai University. She was arrested at her home on 8 December 2020 and transferred to Ward 2A of Evin Prison, where she was held for 57 days before being released on a bail of 1.3 billion tomans on 2 February. On 4 August, Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Nazanin to two years and eight months imprisonment for “participating in the running of an illegal group” and eight months for “propaganda against the system.” The illegal group in her case referred to a book club held in a cafe. Shortly after Nazanin’s lawyer, Mostafa Nili was arrested on 14 August, his client case files including that of Nazanin, were found scattered outside Evin Prison. According to her sister, “she didn’t even have time to discuss her appeal with him.” Nazanin surrendered to serve her sentence at Evin Prison 1 January 2022. Nazanin was released on 31 January 2023 after being included in the general amnesty list.