Iran: Prison for anti-death penalty activist
By Amnesty International, 3 June 2015, Index number: MDE 13/1808/2015
Anti-death penalty activist Atena Daemi has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for her peaceful activism. She has been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison since October 2014, when she was arrested. She is a prisoner of conscience.
Atena Daemi, a 27-year-old anti-death penalty and civil society activist, was sentenced to 14 years in prison on 12 May by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran after a grossly unfair trial. The trial apparently lasted no more than 15 minutes and took place at the same time as the trial of three others. She was convicted of “gathering and colluding against national security”, “spreading propaganda against the system”, “insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Supreme Leader” and concealing evidence.
The charges stem from her criticism on Facebook and Twitter of executions and human rights violations in Iran, as well as her participation in gatherings outside prison in solidarity with families of death row prisoners, distribution of anti-death penalty pamphlets and her association with human rights defenders and the families of those killed during the crackdown that followed the 2009 election.
Atena Daemi had been arrested in October 2014, and spent 58 days in solitary confinement. She was then transferred to a cell shared with another person, but had no access to a lawyer.
Since being detained, Atena Daemi has been experiencing weakness in her hands and feet, and spells of blurred vision. The authorities refused her family’s request to grant her leave to receive specialized medical care outside prison, linking her medical symptoms to stress-related heart palpitations which can be treated in prison with anti-anxiety and sedative drugs.
The charges stem from her criticism on Facebook and Twitter of executions and human rights violations in Iran, as well as her participation in gatherings outside prison in solidarity with families of death row prisoners, distribution of anti-death penalty pamphlets and her association with human rights defenders and the families of those killed during the crackdown that followed the 2009 election.
Atena Daemi had been arrested in October 2014, and spent 58 days in solitary confinement. She was then transferred to a cell shared with another person, but had no access to a lawyer.
Since being detained, Atena Daemi has been experiencing weakness in her hands and feet, and spells of blurred vision. The authorities refused her family’s request to grant her leave to receive specialized medical care outside prison, linking her medical symptoms to stress-related heart palpitations which can be treated in prison with anti-anxiety and sedative drugs.
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