Iran Human Rights, January 21, 2014: According to reports received from Iran, Shabnam Maddzadah (25), student at Tarbiat Moallem University who was arrested on the February 20, 2009 along with her brother, Farzad Maddzadah, was released after five years in prison.
The Islamic Revolutionary Court Branch 29, headed up by Judge Moghisseh, charged the student activist with ‘waging war against God’ and acting against national security. She was sentenced to five years in prison on February 8, 2009 with her term to be served at the Rajaeishahr prison of Karaj (west of Tehran). Her sentence was upheld by the Court of Appeal in June 2010.
Shabnam Madadzadeh who also was the Deputy Director of the Tehran division of the university student organization, the Office of Consolidating Unity (Tahkeem-e-Vahdat), and a number of female political prisoners were later transferred from Rajaeishahr prison to the Gharachak prison of Varamin (near Tehran), an action which met with widespread protests from from human rights organizations and political activists. Following the reactions by political activists and human rights organizations, the prisoners were transferred to Tehran’s Evin prison.
It is worth mentioning that she served her entire sentence, without a single day of furlough.
