The story of one of Iran’s bravest women

NCRI Women's Committee

We’re talking about political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared. On December 29, as the world was celebrating Christmas and the New Year, she marked the end of her 13th year in prison for seeking justice for her siblings executed by the Iranian regime in the 1980s. Maryam had been imprisoned in the women’s ward of Evin Prison until the 9th of March 2021, when she was violently brought out of her cell and banished to Semnan. She is the only political prisoner in the women’s ward of Semnan Prison that she describes as a “hell.” She sent a letter from this prison.