Human proper activists say Khadijeh Mehdipour, a political prisoner being held in Ilam jail in western Iran, has been crushed once more by inmates who’re serving time for violent crimes.
The Hengaw Human Rights Group says Mehdipour, who’s in jail with out being segregated from harmful prisoners, was crushed by violent criminals on the instigation of the jail authorities and even compelled to sleep within the jail library.
Some human rights sources, together with the Human Rights Activists Information Company (HRANA), say Mehdipour has been handed new expenses whereas in jail for “insulting Islamic sanctities.” Due to this, she has been banned from making telephone calls along with her household for a month, based on the sources, who spoke on the situation of anonymity.
Earlier in February, Mehdipour was additionally attacked and crushed by quite a few prisoners accused of violent crimes, which resulted in an damage to her eye.
The Iranian Prisons Group introduced on the time that the rationale for the “battle” was for Mehdipour voicing “obscenities and insults” about Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founding father of the Islamic Republic, Ali Khamenei, the present chief of Iran, and Qasem Soleimani, the previous commander of the Quds Drive who was killed by the USA in 2020.
Experiences of political prisoners being held alongside harmful criminals in prisons throughout Iran are usually not unusual.
Mehdipour was arrested in October 2021 for her actions posted on social media and sentenced to twenty months in jail by the Islamic Revolutionary Courtroom of Ilam for “propaganda in opposition to the regime, insulting the founding father of the Islamic republic and insulting its management.”
