{"id":19019,"date":"2020-05-15T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=19019"},"modified":"2020-05-15T13:07:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:07:42","slug":"political-prisoner-narges-mohammadi-rejects-kangaroo-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2020\/05\/15\/political-prisoner-narges-mohammadi-rejects-kangaroo-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Rejects \u201cKangaroo Court\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 13, 2020<\/a><\/div>\n
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Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi refused to attend an interrogation session in which she would have provided\u00a0her latest defense<\/a>\u00a0on the new charges brought against her.<\/div>\n
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In February 2020, this political prisoner was informed of two new cases against her. Narges Mohammadi\u2019s last\u00a0 hearing was on May 5, 2020, in the presence of the investigator at Branch 2 of the\u00a0Zanjan Prosecutor\u2019s Office<\/a>, in the women\u2019s ward of the Prison of Zanjan.<\/p>\n

Narges Mohammadi called the accusations against her baseless and false.<\/p>\n

She also declared that the accusations were in clear violation of the Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as a violation of her own\u00a0human rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, I have been sentenced to 23 years in prison by three branches of the Revolutionary Court. Now that the trials for my last two cases have been completed, I am announcing that I will not appear in the judiciary\u2019s\u00a0Kangaroo Court<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI stand behind all of my activities inside Evin Prison, as well as the meetings I have attended, the positions I have taken, and the statements I have made during my years in prison. I am paying the price for this in exile and while being subjected to the inhumane conditions imposed on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cI consider the actions of the Ministry of Intelligence, Rouhani, and the director of\u00a0Evin Prison<\/a>\u00a0and the Prisons Organization to be biased, and against both the law and human morality, and I will not remain silent in the face of this injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n

On February 22, 2020, six new charges were filed against the political prisoner.<\/p>\n

She was indicted without a court appearance and the law was enforced in the women\u2019s ward.<\/p>\n

Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi is the former spokeswoman and vice-president of the League of Human Rights Defenders. She has been in prison since May 4, 2015. The three main charges against her are \u201cassociation and collusion against the state,\u201d punishable by five years; \u201cpropaganda against the state,\u201d punishable by one year; and \u201cfounding and collaborating with the LEGAM association to abolish the\u00a0death penalty in Iran<\/a>,\u201d punishable by 10 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 13, 2020 in\u00a0Women’s News Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi refused to attend an interrogation session in which she would have provided\u00a0her latest defense\u00a0on the new […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":19020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19021,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions\/19021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}