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Iranwire – The Iranian judiciary says it has charged well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan with “insult” after she shouted slogans against the Islamic Republic’s leader upon her release from prison last month.
Speaking at a press conference in Tehran on April 11, judiciary spokesperson Masoud Setayeshi said that prosecutors sent Qoliyan’s indictment to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on March 19.
After her release on March 15, Qoliyan posted on Twitter a video of herself without the mandatory hijab shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei outside Tehran’s Evin prison.
“Khamenei the Zahhak! We’ll take you down into the grave,” she shouted, referring to a mythical king said to have fed serpents growing out of his shoulders with young people’s brains.
بعد از چهار سال و هفت ماه از پرونده هفت‌تپه آزاد شدم. این‌‌بار به امید آزادی ایران اومدم بیرون! به امید آزادی خیلی زود عزیزانم سپیده کاشانی، نیلوفر بیانی، زهرا زه‌‌تاب‌چی، بهاره هدایت، گلرخ ایرایی، ناهید تقوی و همه زندانیان سیاسی مخصوصا زنان زندانی. #ژن_ژیان_ئازادی pic.twitter.com/xsatUX1vZf— sepideqoliyan (@sepideqoliyan) March 15, 2023
The activist was re-arrested five hours later.
Qoliyan was initially detained during a workers’ strike in November 2018 and later sentenced to 19 years and six months in prison. The sentence was reduced to five years on appeal. She was released last month after being granted “amnesty.”
“Those who were granted amnesty but commit a new crime will have the amnesty revoked, and the judiciary will deal with their new crimes according to legal standards,” Setayeshi told reporters.
