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Jailed Iranian Activist Armita Pavir says "Hope. Don't lose hope."
 

NCRI - Womens committee -12 Feb - in Women's News
<<Iranian Judiciary sentences Armita Pavir to prison for her political activism
The regime's Revolutionary Court sentenced a university student, Armita Pavir, to prison for her political activities.
Armita Pavir, a student of cellular and molecular biology, was sentenced to a total of 22 months and 17 days in prison on charges of <spreading propaganda against the state>, and <insulting the leadership and authorities>, by the Azarshahr Revolutionary Court in northeastern Iran. Armita Pavir was arrested on September 21, 2023, and is currently in the Central Prison of Tabriz under mental torture and severe restrictions. She has denied the charges brought against her but has refused to express remorse to receive amnesty. The student activist at Tabriz University was tried in absentia, without the right to a lawyer of her choice and due process. Armita Pavir went on a dry hunger strike, refusing to eat food and liquids on January 27. She started drinking liquids, refusing to eat food on February 1. On the 17th day of her hunger strike, she told her family in a phone call from Tabriz Prison that she <would not back down even at the cost of her life.> <I also told the judge that in the 750 pages in my dossier, you cannot accuse me of publishing lies, because all my words are documented and true,> she told her family. According to Ghasem Baddi, a lawyer in Tabriz, <Based on the audio file that came to us exclusively from Armita Pavir, prison authorities are trying to transfer her to the Razi (psychiatric) Hospital. Also, a group of women in Tabriz prison have joined Armita's hunger strike.> Evidence shows that political prisoners are transferred to psychiatric hospitals as a means of putting more pressure on them. Armita Pavir was arrested on October 31, 2022, during the nationwide protests and was released on bail on December 8.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2024/02/12/armita-pavir-prison/


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Iranwire - 12 Feb 2024 - by ROGHAYEH REZAEI
<<Iranian Woman Prisoner Protests Transfer to Mental Hospital
Armita Pavir's voice trembles with emotion as she speaks from behind the walls of Tabriz prison. This university student has been on hunger strike for the past 17 days - her third over the past five months. In an audio file obtained by IranWire, Pavir expresses her fears that the prison authorities might put into execution their repeated threats to transfer her to a psychiatric hospital. The young woman was first detained during protests in the northwestern city of Tabriz on October 31 last year. Before that, she was suspended and then banned from university for her student activism.
Pavir ran a Telegram channel where he shared her daily experiences and emphasized the need to keep up the resistance against the Islamic Republic to bring changes in her country. Security agents confiscated her mobile phone and electronic devices, and pressured her to sign a letter of apology to justify her arrest. The judiciary claims to have arrested her for <financial> reasons, citing a debt she allegedly owed the university for running a cafe at Tabriz Madani University. However, an informed source has told IranWire that this is merely a pretext, as she remains incarcerated despite having paid the debt and damages. She has been sentenced to a total of 22 months and 17 days in prison. In December, the Revolutionary Court convicted Pavir of <propaganda against the Islamic Republic> and <insulting> the Islamic Republic's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. In the audio file, Pavir recounts her harrowing ordeal at the hands of the prison authorities. She reveals that the prison's doctor tried to inject her with serum but failed, and the prison authorities now want her hospitalized. Pavir adamantly refused, stating, <I will not lift my strike for a thousand and one reasons. I refuse to yield under any circumstances, even if it means facing death.> The pressure tactics employed by authorities include preventing her from communicating outside the prison walls. She has also been threatened to be transferred to Razi Psychiatric Hospital, known for its harsh treatment of dissidents. <I refuse to bow down. Even if my body is removed from this cell, my spirit remains unbroken. My voice falters and my throat is parched. I will not falter,> Pavir says. The source which provided Pavir's audio file to IranWire describes her as <bold and resolute,> noting her unwavering commitment even in the face of death. This individual also reveals that Tabriz prison authorities aim to fabricate charges against Pavir, alleging plans to incite riots among fellow inmates. The Iranian government has a history of using mental health allegations against political and ideological dissidents.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/125277-iranian-woman-prisoner-protests-transfer-to-mental-hospital/

Hengaw Organisation for Human Right - 15 Dec 2023
<<Tabriz; Armita Pavir, a student, arrested and sentenced to 22 months and 17 days in prison
Armita Pavir, a student activist and one of the detainees of the Women, Life, Freedom movement, who recently went on a hunger strike in Tabriz Central Prison, was sentenced to one year, ten months, and seventeen days in prison by the judicial system of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to the report received by the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, Armita Pavir, a student activist of Azerbaijan Civil University, was recently dismissed has been sentenced to one year and three months and on day on the charge of <insulting Khamenei in cyberspace>, and in seven months and sixteen days on the charge <Propaganda activity against the Islamic Republic of Iran> and a total of one year and 10 months and 17 days of penal servitude by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Court in Azarshahr. According to the Consolidation of Sentences Law and if the sentence is approved by the Court of Appeal, the harshest punishment for Armita Pavir will be one year three months, and one day in prison. Armita Pavir, the arrested student of Molecular Biology at Tabriz Civil University, started her third hunger strike in Tabriz Central Prison on Friday, November 3, 2023, which destabilized her health condition. This student from Tabriz was sent to <Imam Reza> hospital in Tabriz in the middle of the third period of her strike due to her worsening condition and was returned to the prison without permission to complete the treatment period. She ended her first hunger strike, which began on Tuesday, October 17, 2023, with the promise of the prison authorities to look into her legal status and conditions of detention. Armita Pavir has been continuously under pressure, to the extent that Mehboob Alilu, the public prosecutor and revolution of Tabriz, has so far put pressure on her to file a case. This student was arrested by the security agents in Tabriz on Thursday, September 21, 2023, and was taken to the central prison of this city. She was arrested for the first time on October 31, 2023, during the protests, by the security forces in front of the Tabriz Civil University, and on December 8, 2023, she was temporarily released from Tabriz Central Prison with a bail of 250 million tomans until the end of the proceedings.>>
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https://hengaw.net/en/news/2023/12/tabriz-armita-pavir-a-student-arrested-and-sentenced-to-22-months-and-17-days-in-prison

Iranwire - 23 Nov 2023 - by ROGHAYEH REZAEI
<<Jailed Iranian Activist Armita Pavir on New Hunger Strike
Armita Pavir, a 29-year-old Iranian activist imprisoned in the northwestern city of Tabriz, says she has been on a hunger strike for 10 days, and holds the Islamic Republic accountable for any harm that may befall her. In an audio file received by IranWire, Pavir says launched her hunger strike on November 12, the second since her arrest on September 13, emphasizing that her dreams, life and career have all been taken from her. Speaking with a weak voice, she is interrupted every few minutes by a message saying, <This call is from Tabriz prison.> The activist says she will not relent, declaring that she cannot ignore the countless grieving families and the blood spilled in the authorities' crackdown on dissent. Recent reports emerged from Tabriz prison indicating that Pavir was hospitalized due to her deteriorating health. The young woman was first detained during protests in Tabriz on October 31 last year. Before that, she was suspended and then banned from university for her student activism. Pavir ran a Telegram channel where he shared her daily experiences and emphasized the need to keep up the resistance against the Islamic Republic to bring changes in her country. Security agents have retained her mobile phone and electronic devices and pressured her to sign a letter of apology to justify her arrest. The judiciary claims to have arrested her for <financial> reasons, citing a debt she allegedly owed the university for running a cafe at Tabriz Madani University. However, an informed source has told IranWire that this is merely a pretext, as she remains incarcerated despite having paid the debt and damages. In the audio file, Pavir confirms that the financial accusations are fabricated and describes being pressured to sign a <letter of repentance> since the first day of her detention. According to Pavir, the city's prosecutor forced her into a meeting in Tabriz prison. <They told me to write a letter of repentance and express regret... but I explicitly stated that I'm not sorry or regretful, and if given the chance again, I would take the same actions,> she says. <Our discussion continued, and the prosecutor bluntly declared that anyone who opposes this system [the Islamic Republic] is a traitor,> she adds. <He was so enraged and narrow-minded that he shouted in the hallway that 'no one has the right to assist this woman.'> In response, she shouted that <no one desires assistance from you or your kind.> Pavir details the harassment she has faced since her arrest, stating that <from the moment I arrived, various officials spoke to me repeatedly to persuade me to write a letter of repentance.> She explains that her refusal to sign the letter and her interaction with the prosecutor led to the extension of her detention. While similar cases typically take 10 to 15 days to reach court, this process took three months in Pavir's case. During this time, a judge ruled she should remain incarcerated.
Pavir explains that after observing her positive interactions with other inmates, prison officials transferred her to a cell on a separate floor reserved for minors. However, she says the cell also houses a woman accused of murder and another who faces the death penalty for drug trafficking.
<If I am a financial prisoner, why am I not in a financial ward [of the prison]?> she asks. Pavir said she first went on a hunger strike to protest her transfer to a cell outside the general and financial crimes ward and the relentless pressure she endured. <They didn't allow me to shop on my own,> she says. <I had to write a list and have other people buy things for me. As time went on, they increased the psychological pressure. The prison warden confiscated my notebook for no reason, even though I was using it to learn handicraft skills. When I walk in the yard, people constantly follow me around, eavesdropping on my conversations with others.> <This system, despite its arsenal of weapons, media outlets and despite its use of punishments, threats, and all forms of repression, feels so weak that it fears a women activist like me,> she continued. <If I talk to a fellow prisoner for five minutes, the prison's order is disrupted.> Pavir reveals that she ended her first hunger strike after receiving promises from prison authorities that she would be transferred to the ward housing financial prisoners by November 10. <They didn't keep their promise, so I resumed my hunger strike and will not end it under any circumstances,> she says. <With each passing day, I become increasingly aware of my capacity for resilience and bravery.> <The end of this path is clear to me, not only for me but for all of us,> according to the activist, who ends her audio message by saying: <Hope. Don't lose hope.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/women/122793-jailed-iranian-activist-armita-pavir-on-new-hunger-strike/

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