Shima Babaii, a 21-year-old student of Construction Engineering, was arrested in a raid on her residence Wednesday night, May 25, 2016, and transferred to Evin’s Ward 2A, infamous for solitary confinement and torture.
No information is available on Ms. Babaii’s charges.
She had contacts with families of martyrs and political prisoners and participated in some of their peaceful gatherings.
Her father, Ibrahim Babaii, is a former political prisoner who was held five years in Evin after the incidents of December 27, 2009, when a popular uprising in Tehran was about to topple the regime.