Iranian security forces today raided the home of Kurdish journalist Nazila Maroofian in Tehran and confiscated some of her personal belongings, including her mobile phone and laptop.
Maroofian took to Twitter to report the incident, adding that security forces also asked her to appear at the Evin Prosecutor’s Office on 8 July.
Maroofian, from Saqqez, Kurdistan province, was previously beaten by security forces at Tehran’s Valiasr Square on 20 June, and had also reported her exclusion from public services for not abiding by compulsory hijab rules.
The journalist was arrested on 30 October 2022 on the orders of the Security Prosecutor’s Office located in Evin Prison, and was pressured and threatened by interrogators to obtain forces confessions during her detention.
She suffered two mild heart attacks and was briefly hospitalized at Mofatteh Hospital in the city of Ray, Tehran province, before being returned to prison.
On 9 January, Maroofian was released from Qarchak Prison, Tehran province, on a bail of 6 billion Iranian rials – nearly 12,000 USD.
In January, Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Maroofian to two years in prison, a fine of 150 million rials, and a five-year ban on leaving Iran for publishing interviews with Jina Mahsa Amini’s father.
The charges against Maroofian included “propaganda against the state” and “publishing lies with the intention of disturbing the public mind”.
The journalist’s two-year sentence was suspended for five years, according to the verdict.
