According to Hana’s colleagues, in recent days, Parvin Edvaei, a civil and women’s rights activist from the village of Selin, a district of Marivan, was temporarily released from the Sanandaj Juvenile Correctional Center after posting bail.
Ms. Edvaei was arrested by security forces on Monday, January 20, 2024, and was subsequently transferred to the detention center of the Sanandaj Intelligence Department. Finally, on February 17, 2024, she was moved to the general ward of the Sanandaj Juvenile Correctional Center.
During her detention, Parvin Edvaei was deprived of all her fundamental rights, including the right to contact and visit her family and the right to have a lawyer of her choice.
This is not the first time she has been arrested. In August 2019, she was detained by Marivan intelligence forces and was released after three months on a bail of 500 million tomans.
Ms. Edvaei was sentenced to five years in prison by the Marivan Revolutionary Court on charges of “membership in one of the Kurdish opposition parties of the Iranian government.” This sentence was later reduced to one year in prison by the Court of Appeals.
On January 30, 2020, this women’s rights activist was arrested to serve her one-year prison sentence and transferred to the Sanandaj Juvenile Correctional Center. Eventually, on April 6, 2020, after serving approximately six months of her sentence in Sanandaj Central Prison, she was granted amnesty and released.