A few days after the news of the “suspicious” death of a young woman named Sara Tabrizi was published, the Iranian regime’s judiciary confirmed her detention in recent months.
On March 23, reports of the “suspicious” death of Ms. Tabrizi went viral on social media
Some news sources claimed that this 20-year-old girl had died after being summoned again by the Ministry of Intelligence in mid March.
The regime’s Judiciary Media Center confirmed on March 29 that Sara Tabrizi’s father had announced on March 24 “through contact with the local police station in their residence in Shahriar County, Tehran Province, that his daughter did not wake up from sleep and apparently had passed away.”
The judiciary claimed that no summons had been issued by security or judicial authorities for Ms. Tabrizi in mid-March.
However, the judiciary confirmed the detention of Sara Tabrizi in January and claimed that on January 7, she “was detained on charges of using fake documents and passports to leave the country, and after going through the stages of the investigation, she was released on bail from prison on January 14.”
The judiciary announced in its recent report that Sara Tabrizi returned to prison after temporary release on January 14 until the time of her death, and only a “suspended imprisonment” sentence had been issued for her.
The reason for the death of this young woman has not been published yet, but the judiciary report stated that Ms. Tabrizi’s father had announced that “his daughter had been transferred to the hospital the night before her death due to feeling unwell and had been under treatment.”
This is not the first time that news of the death of a prisoner has been published after their release.
During the nationwide protests in 2022 and thereafter, numerous reports about the “suspicious” deaths of some detained protesters after their release were published, including the deaths of Maryam Arvin and Yalda Agha-Fazli, a protester residing in Tehran.
Furthermore, some protesters ended their lives due to physical and psychological pressures resulting from interrogation and torture.
Some of Sara Tabrizi’s fellow inmates say her death “regardless of how it occurred, is the responsibility of the government.”
In this letter, signed by several well-known political prisoners in the women’s ward of notorious Evin Prison, it is stated that during the week Sara Tabrizi was in the women’s ward, she was seen terrified and nervous.
Based on this, Ms. Tabrizi described her loneliness in solitary confinement and “her fear of the realization of interrogation threats,” and according to her, after three nights of detention in solitary confinement in Section 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence in Evin prison, she was transferred to the infirmary due to severe palpitations and nervous attacks but was still under pressure during interrogation that if she did not “cooperate,” she would be returned to solitary confinement.
