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Iran-HRM – Human rights lawyer Soheila Hejab was violently taken to the notorious Qarchak Prison after an appeals court session on Sunday, May 23, 2020.
Soheila Hejab had been summoned to the Court of Appeals scheduled for May 23, 2020. She was arrested and beaten by IRGC intelligence agents after the court session.
Reports indicate that the agents dragged her from his hair to the asphalt and severely beaten her before taking her to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. Among the assailants was her former interrogator, who literally threatened her to death.
The agents of the Sarallah base, which belongs to the intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) punched, and kicked Ms. Soheila Hejab in the head, face, and sides.
Her former interrogator dragged her on street by grabbing her hair to get her in car to take her to Qarchak Prison. The IRGC agents threatened her with opening criminal cases against her.
In a phone call from the prison, Ms. Hejab said: “…as soon as I left the court, I was arrested by the Sarollah Corps in Tehran without any legal reason and explanation. They beat me and dragged me by my hair in the street and punched and kicked me in the head, face and side.”
“They opened new case against me which has nothing to do with my confirmed case. This is my interrogator’s request. He has repeatedly threatened me to death through inmates who have been convicted of violent crimes in Qarchak Prison,” She further said.
” Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, I will be taken to court. They will definitely take me to the safe houses of the IRGC’s Sarallah for long-term interrogation and solitary confinement,” Ms. Hejab said.
Human rights lawyer Soheila Hejab had been previously arrested at home on June 6, 2019, by agents of the IRGC Intelligence.
On January 28, 2020, she was brutalized by prison guards at Evin Prison. Due to the injuries sustained, she was taken to Taleghani Hospital but returned without any medical examinations.
Ms. Hejab was temporarily released from Evin Prison on March 14 on a heavy bail of three billion tomans until her trial is held.
She was sentenced to 18 years in prison in March, by the branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court presided by notorious judge Abolghasem Moghiseh.
She was charged with “propaganda against the state”, “assembly and collusion”, “disrupting public order to create chaos”, “forming a group to defend women’s rights”, and, “demanding a referendum and changing the constitution”.
The sentence has been exactly upheld by the appeals court in Tehran Province.
