Sunday, September 23, 2012

Faezeh Hashemi Arrested

Taken to Evin Prison


Iranian authorities took Faezeh Hashemi, a former member of Majlis and daughter of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, to prison Saturday on charges of “spreading anti-state propaganda.”

Ms. Hashemi was convicted in January and sentenced to six-month jail for an interview she gave to an opposition news website in which she criticized human rights violations in Iran. She was taken to the notorious Evin prison at 11:00 p.m. on Saturday.

Faezeh represented Tehran in Majlis between 1996 and 2000 and founded the popular women’s magazine Zan. Her father is one of the founders of the Islamic Republic and has served two terms as Iran’s president. 

File Courtesy Photo: Faeze Hashemi. (Radio Farda)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

the most important violation of human right is if my dad is no mere president.

Anonymous said...

I don't know about her; but the fact, that regime is always sending its thugs, basiji and Chaghu-kesh to very place (like Universities) where Iranian people want to express themselves freely is the real expression of their fascism and these ridiculous stunts are part of that very movement ...

Muller said...

ClumpolSeems so that all people are equal before the law in Iran.

Anonymous said...

--- ' the most important violation of human right is if my dad is no mere president.'---


who is this cretin that would shrug of a nakedly threatening imprisonment of a woman as if it were a jest?

Anonymous said...



-- "ClumpolSeems so that all people are equal before the law in Iran.:---
another tasteless joke but is truthful to the extent that the "law' in Iran is equally applied to imprison anyone challenging the dictatorships political control.....and the families of those people can also expect imprisonment under the theocrats "law"

Nader Uskowi said...

Farhad,

I assume you have not served time at Evin. You would not have made such a clumsy joke otherwise.

Anonymous said...

because ahmadi nejad finished the rule of my billionare dad ( Corruption) and cut the privilege of prince and princess(Aghazadeh = neoptismus) the electopn 2009 was forged