Former political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh, who was detained by the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on 4 April, has been transferred to Mashhad Central Prison.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after her arrest, Parvaneh was taken to the detention facility of the IRGC’s intelligence agency and then transferred to Mashhad Central Prison on 14 April after initial interrogations.
The former Kurdish political prisoner’s case is being investigated on charges of “propaganda against the state” at Branch 903 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office.
Since her arrest, Parvaneh has been denied the right to legal counsel and family visits.
On 11 February, Parvaneh was released under amnesty from Mashhad Central Prison, while serving the fourth year of her seven-year prison sentence.
After her release from prison, she was rearrested on 7 March by security forces in Tehran and released after four days.
The Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC has been refusing to return her personal documents, including her identity card.
Parvaneh had previously published a letter on 25 June 2020, describing her detention process and the harassment she had gone through during her imprisonment.
According to this letter, the security agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran arrested her in the early autumn of 2019 under the pretext of meeting her family in the city of Sulaimaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
After her arrest, said the letter, she was first taken to the Iran-Iraq border and held in the detention centres of Marivan and Sanandaj for 10 days and then taken to the Evin Prison of Tehran.
Parvaneh added that in Evin Prison, she was interrogated and physically tortured in wards A and 209 and the ward for women prisoners.
Parvaneh’s lawyer Payam Derafshan said on 25 May 2020 that his client had been sentenced to five years in prison and three years ban from membership in political groups on charges of “membership in groups or factions opposing the state with the aim of disrupting national security”.
In April 2020, Parvaneh was transferred from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin for writing and chanting slogans. After spending four days in solitary confinement in this prison, she was transferred to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital in Rey.
The political prisoner was returned to Evin Prison on 4 July 2020 with bruises and beating marks on her body.
Later, a court sentenced Parvaneh to two years in prison in August 2020 on charges of “disrupting the prison order”.
In November 2020, the political prisoner was transferred from Evin Prison to Quchan and Mashhad prisons.
In addition, in the past two years, she was taken several times to the detention centre of the Intelligence Organisation of the IRGC in Mashhad and was subjected to physical and mental torture to make confessions on TV.
Parvaneh also went on hunger strikes several times to protest against the pressure of security agencies.
