19 Female Prisoners of Conscience Currently Detained
|
Name |
Offense |
Sentence |
Arrest Date |
Details |
|
Nasrin Sotoudeh |
Spreading lies against the state |
11 years |
9/4/10 |
Sotoudeh is a human rights Lawyer. Her sentence was later reduced on 09/2011 to 6 years and 10 year ban on practicing law |
|
Cooperating with the Center of Human Rights Defenders |
||||
|
Acting against national security |
||||
|
Atefeh Nabavi Chashmi |
Contact with the Mojahedin Khalgh (MEK) |
3.4 years |
6/15/10 |
Charged 12/2010 |
|
Participation in the protests of June 15th, 2009 |
||||
|
Alieh Eghdamdoust |
Participation in the June 12, 2006 protest in Hafte Tir Square |
3.4 years, 20 lashes |
2/1/09 |
Sentence later reduced to 3 years and no lashing |
|
Mahboubeh Karami |
Membership in a human rights organization |
4 years |
3/2/10 |
Charged 02/02/2011. Sentence was later reduced to 3 years |
|
Propaganda against the State |
||||
|
Gathering an collusion with the intent of harming national security |
||||
|
Hanieh Sane Farshi/ Hanieh “Sharareh” Farshi Shotorban |
Insulting what is sacred |
7 years |
7/18/10 |
Blogger |
|
Having contacts with a foreign entity |
||||
|
Ladan Mostofi |
Insulting what is sacred |
5 years |
Not Provided |
Blogger |
|
Insulting the Supreme Leader |
||||
|
Ashraf Alikhani |
Anti-regime propaganda |
3 years |
Not Provided |
Blogger, Started prison Sentence on 05/25/2011 |
|
Farah Vazehan |
Participating in Street Protest, |
Death Penalty |
12/29/09 |
Sentence was reduced to 17 years in prison*** |
|
Being a member of (MKO) |
||||
|
Rayhaneh Haj-Ebrahim Dabbagh |
Sending pictures and videos of the demonstrations to foreign countries |
Death Penalty |
no information |
Sentence later reduced to 15 years*** |
|
Membership of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) |
||||
|
Maryam Akbari Monfared |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
1/1/10 |
Sentence later reduced to 15 years*** |
|
Massoumeh Yavari |
Muharebeh |
7 years |
9/18/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
|
Nazila Dashti |
Supporting MKO, Illegal Exit From the Border |
3 years |
Apr-07 |
Accused of MEK association |
|
Motahareh Haghighi Bahram |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
12/27/09 |
Accused of MEK association; Sentence later reduced to 10 years*** |
|
Kobra Banazadeh Amirkhizi |
MKO |
5 years |
1/16/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
|
Shabnam Madadzadeh |
Muharabeh/ Acting Against National Security/MKO |
5 years |
2/21/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
|
Kefayat Malek Mohammadi |
Collaboration with the MKO |
5 years |
12/27/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
|
Mitra Zahmati |
Membership of An Illegal Group |
2.5 years |
12/24/09 |
Christian converts, Released 01/04/2010 |
|
Maryam Jalali |
Membership of An Illegal Group |
2.5 years |
12/24/09 |
Christian converts, Released 01/04/2010 |
|
Shahla Rahmati |
Membership of An Illegal Group |
2.5 years |
3/9/11 |
Christian converts, Ahvaz church arrest, Released 12/20/2011 |
