Wrisha Moradi, a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR) with the organisational code name of Jwana Sna, remains detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Ward 209, more than four and a half months after her arrest by security forces in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that after her arrest on 1 August, Moradi was transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj, where she was subjected to physical and psychological torture for about two weeks in order to extract forced confessions.
After initial interrogations, she was transferred from the Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in Sanandaj to Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran in mid-August.
Moradi has had only one brief face-to-face meeting with her family in late November, and has been consistently denied access to legal representation due to opposition from the Ministry of Intelligence.
On 8 November, the Bitawan website, which is affiliated to the Ministry of Intelligence, reported that Moradi and two others had been arrested by its forces.
While the website did not specify the date of their arrest, it described them as members of the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK).
On 26 September, KJAR issued a statement saying that Moradi was in the region to “carry out political activities and organise women” in Kurdistan.
KJAR called on international human rights organisations to “take the necessary measures regarding the forced disappearance” of its member.
Moradi was arrested on 1 August at the entrance to Sanandaj after Ministry of Intelligence forces opened fire on the car in which she was being transported.
