{"id":738,"date":"2015-08-15T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T15:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/?p=738"},"modified":"2019-05-08T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:46:08","slug":"ailing-student-activists-continued-detention-violates-irans-own-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.bashariyat.org\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Ailing Student Activist\u2019s Continued Detention Violates Iran\u2019s Own Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prominent student activist Bahareh Hedayat should have been released by the end of July 2015 with the completion of more than five years in prison but efforts to end her unlawful incarceration have so far been unsuccessful, according to her husband Amin Ahmadian.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhatever happens to her, the responsibility will be with those who are acting against the law by keeping her imprisoned for no reason,\u201d Ahmadian told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hedayat, 34, winner of the 2012 Harald Edelstam Defence of Human Rights Award, was given three sentences in January 2010: Five years for \u201cacting against national security and publishing falsehoods,\u201d two years for \u201cinsulting the Supreme Leader\u201d and six months for \u201cinsulting the President.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahmadian told the Campaign that Hedayat should have been freed by now because according to Article 134 of the New Islamic Penal Code, she should not be serving more than 5.5 years. Under that Article, in the case of conviction on multiple charges, the prison term should not exceed the sentence for the charge that carries the heaviest punishment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Nasirpour, the head of Evin Prison\u2019s Sentence Enforcement Unit, told us that as far as the law is concerned, she has completed her sentence and Bahareh should go free. He even said that if he were in our place, he would take legal action. And I and Bahareh\u2019s lawyer have been pursuing this for months but so far no one is giving us answers,\u201d Ahmadian added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWe waited a long time. We kept quiet. We didn\u2019t make a fuss. There were more important things going on, like the [nuclear] negotiations, and we didn\u2019t want to overshadow a national issue. But now that the issue has been resolved, there is no reason why they shouldn\u2019t implement their own laws regarding prisoners,\u201d Hedayat\u2019s husband noted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahmadian said it appears that those sentenced before 2013, especially those involved in the peaceful protests against the widely disputed results of the 2009 presidential election in Iran, are being singled out for harsh treatment. As such the authorities are refusing to release them at the end of their maximum sentence, which is a direct violation of Article 134 of Iran\u2019s New Islamic Penal Code.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bahareh Hedayat was a member of the Central Council and Spokesperson for the Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat student union, and an activist with the One Million Signatures Campaign for the Change of Discriminatory Laws Against Women. She was arrested by Iran\u2019s Ministry of Intelligence for the fifth time in four years at midnight on December 31, 2009, as a result of her peaceful activism.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prominent student activist Bahareh Hedayat should have been released by the end of July 2015 with the completion of more than five years in prison but efforts to end her unlawful incarceration have so far been unsuccessful, according to her husband Amin Ahmadian.<\/p>

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