Saba Kord Afshari

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Saba Kord Afshari or Saba Kordafshari ( Persian صبا کردافشاری Saba Kord-Afshari , DMG Sabā Kordāfšārī ; * 1998) is an Iranian human rights activist . She campaigns for women's rights in Iran and against the legally enforced headgear for women. She herself does not wear hijab in public.

She was sentenced to 24 years in prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran on August 19, 2019 .

Arrests and convictions

Kord Afshari was arrested for the first time on August 2, 2018 in front of Daneschju Park in Tehran , where she was participating in a peaceful student protest , and sentenced to a year in prison for "disturbing public order". She was released early in February 2019.

On June 1, 2019, she was arrested again and placed in Ghartschak prison. Her cell phone, laptop and other personal items were confiscated. The next day she was transferred to Section 2A of Evin Prison in Tehran, which is under the intelligence service of the Revolutionary Guard . There she is said to have been forced to make confessions. She was then taken back to Ghartschak and finally transferred to the women's wing of Evin prison on August 13, 2019 . The official allegations were "unifying and colluding against national security", "spreading propaganda against the state" and "spreading corruption and prostitution by taking off her hijab and walking in the street without a veil". The maximum sentence should have been 15 years, but the Revolutionary Court increased the sentence to 24 years for "numerous charges and previous records". The Iranian Ministry of Intelligence had previously repeatedly asked Kord Afshari to publish an apology video "in which she confesses to her crime," which she vehemently refused.

In a resolution of 19 September 2019 on Iran, the European Parliament stated that “the Iranian revolutionary courts have been cracking down on the peaceful resistance of women's rights activists who protest against the mandatory wearing of the hijab for several months, and a. impose considerably longer prison sentences ”. It called on the Iranian authorities to overturn these judgments, including that of Saba Kord-Afshari.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poorvi Gupta: Iran Decrees 24 Years Of Jail Time To The Girl Who Defied Hijab Law. SheThePeople.TV, September 3, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c Iran: Activist Sentenced To 24 Years In Prison: Saba Kordafshari. Amnesty International , November 18, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Iranian civil rights activist has to go to prison for 24 years - because she did not wear a headscarf in public. International Society for Human Rights , accessed February 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Five Young Female Protesters Sentenced To Prison In Iran. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Tarek Fatah: Rejecting Hijab Dooms Woman to 24 years in prison. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Human Rights Watch : World Report 2020. Events of 2019 , Seven Stories Press, New York 2020, ISBN 978-1-64421-005-5
  7. ↑ Iran, attivista anti-hijab condannata a 24 anni di carcere: "Diffonde la prostituzione" , La Repubblica, August 29, 2019
  8. ↑ Iran: Sentencing of Mses. Saba Kord-Afshari, Yassman Aryani, Monireh Arabshahi and Mojgan Keshavarz Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l'Homme
  9. ↑ Saba Kord Afshari sentenced to 24 years for refusing video confessions. NCRI Women Committee, August 27, 2019, accessed February 9, 2020 .
  10. ↑ European Parliament: Iran, especially the situation of women's rights activists and imprisoned EU citizens who also have Iranian citizenship , September 2019 (pdf)
personal data
SURNAME Kord Afshari, Saba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH 1998 or 1999