Aras Amiri was held for years in a notorious Iranian jail with environmentalists accused of espionage.
Aras Amiri says her mind goes back everyday to the prison where she was held and the friends she made thereAmong the many thousands of political prisoners in Iran's jails are seven prominent environmentalists who were arrested in 2018. The former British Council employee, Aras Amiri, spent two and a half years imprisoned with two of them. She was released last year, and is now speaking out for the first time to draw attention to their plight.
Niloufar Bayani is serving a 10-year prison sentence, while Sepideh Kashani was handed a six-year term Even though a committee of Iranian ministers concluded there was no evidence that they were spies, a Revolutionary Court convicted them in 2019 on various national security charges and sentenced them to between six and 10 years in prison.
The UN Environment Programme, where Niloufar Bayani had worked as a consultant for several years before joining the PWHF, has called for their release.Also in jail is Houman Jokar, Sepideh Kashani's husband, seen here with a sedated Persian leopard Bayani wrote to court that she was threatened with sexual assault, was forced to mimic the sounds of wild animals and was shown pictures of the body of Kavous Seyed-Emami and told she and her colleagues would suffer a similar fate unless they confessed.
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