Four months into her arrest, Varisha Moradi is still in detention without standing trial.
Varisha Moradi, a Kurdish women’s rights activist from Sanandaj and a member of the East Kurdistan Free Women Society (KJAR), was kidnapped on August 1, 2023.
She was viciously tortured in the detention center of the Department of Intelligence of Sanandaj to make confessions against herself. An informed source reported that in one instance, she vomited blood and went completely unconscious under torture.
Varisha Moradi was subsequently transferred to the Intelligence Ministry Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran.
She has met her family only once since August 1, 2023, when she was kidnapped by agents of the Intelligence Ministry on the road from Marivan to Sanandaj. She was violently beaten and taken to jail without receiving any medical care. She has not had access to her lawyer.
There is no information on the reason for arrest and the charges levelled against her.