A reliable source has informed Hana’s reporter that security agencies had control over the Instagram account of Mahboubeh Mousavi—one of those arrested during the Jina Mahsa Amini Uprising in Ahvaz—for about a year and a half. They allegedly intended to use it to fabricate cases against some of her friends and acquaintances.
On December 8, 2022, at the height of the Women, Life, Freedom protests, Ms. Mousavi was shot in the shoulder.
The following day, December 9, as she attempted to visit a doctor, she was shot again by agents of the Islamic Republic while defending two other citizens. This time, she was arrested by security forces.
Despite severe bleeding, Ms. Mousavi was held in solitary confinement at Chaharshir Detention Center in Ahvaz for over twenty days.
When her family inquired about her whereabouts, security agencies falsely told them, “We have found a body matching your daughter’s description in Khorramabad.”
When her family visited the forensic office in Khorramabad, an intelligence agent—knowing that the Mousavi family was traditional—told her father, “Are we responsible for your daughter’s disappearance? Maybe she ran away with a boy!”
During her detention, security forces assigned a female officer as her supposed lawyer, falsely claiming that her family had approved the representative. It was later revealed that this individual was actually an interrogator attempting to coerce Ms. Mousavi into making a forced confession.
After a month, Ms. Mousavi was released from the IRGC Intelligence detention center on a bail of 1.5 billion tomans.
A month after her release, she was finally able to have the bullet removed from her shoulder.
On September 11, 2023, just before the first anniversary of Jina Mahsa Amini’s death, Ms. Mousavi was arrested again at her home. After several weeks in detention, she was temporarily released on a salary-backed bail.
Due to ongoing security pressures, Ms. Mousavi is currently unable to reside in Ahvaz. Additionally, under pressure from security agencies, she has been dismissed from the laboratory where she was employed.
Her case remains open, and no court hearing has been scheduled yet.
Notably, security forces had access to her Instagram account for about a year and a half, using it to fabricate cases against several of her friends and acquaintances.