Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was transferred from Quchan Prison to the Mashhad Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office for unknown reasons, after which she was transferred to the quarantine ward of Mashhad prison.
At 10 pm on December 14, this political prisoner was transferred from Quchan Prison to a security detention centre in Mashhad for unknown reasons, and this morning she was transferred to this prison’s quarantine, a reliable source told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN).
The transfer of this political prisoner from the prison of the city where her family resides to Mashhad prison reportedly took place while she has been deprived of the right to visit her family since her arrest due to pressure from the Intelligence Office of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The political prisoner went on a hunger strike for 20 days last month in protest to her planned exile to Isfahan Prison. She was beaten by security forces during her hunger strike when she sewed her lips for several days.
In March this year, She was transferred from solitary confinement in Qarchak Prison in Varamin to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital in Rey, where she was kept in harsh conditions for a month despite doctors’ advice to return her to prison.
The political prisoner had previously published a letter on July 26 describing the detention and harassment she had experienced during her imprisonment. According to her, security agents arrested her early in the fall of 2020 when she was visiting her family in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah. After being transferred to the Iranian-Iraqi border, she spent 10 days in Marivan and Sanandaj detention centres. She spent her detention under the most severe interrogations and physical torture in Wards 2A, 209 and the Women Ward of Evin Prison.
Her lawyer called Peyman Darfshan, who is also currently in the prison, announced that his client had been sentenced to five years in prison and a two-year ban on membership in political groups and communities by Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran on May 25.
In March, Sakineh Parvaneh painted the flag of Kurdistan and wrote slogans in favour of the Komala party in the Women’s Ward of Evin Prison. Ms Parvaneh’s action provoked a strong reaction from the prison security officers, who transferred the political prisoner to Aminabad Shahrari Psychiatric Hospital while insulting and beating her. On August 27, this political prisoner was notified of being sentenced to a further two years in prison on charges of “disturbing the prison order” while in prison.
