Statement by Shiva Nazar Ahari’s Lawyer

Committee of Human Rights Reporters - Only three months had passed from Shiva Nazari Ahari’s release from prison when she was arrested again. She was released on October 28th on a 200 million toman bail (approximately $200,000 USD). Ahari stated that she is being kept in the solitary confinement of section 209 of evin prison.

Shiva Nazar Ahari’s lawyer Dr. Mohammad Sharif said, “I recorded her mandate in her first detention and she was released on bail. In her recent detention, I didn’t get a chance to read the file yet to see if the recent detention is a new case or the bail of the last file is intensified to detention.”

Shiva Nazar ahari was not arrested while committing a crime, so it cannot be a new case. In my opinion, as her lawyer, as long as I have not read her file her detention is the intensification of bail.

Dr. Mohammad Sharif said the following as the reason for the extensive wave of arrests of human rights reporters:

Human rights is not compatible with the existence of governments. particularly, two groups of countries who have a deep enmity with human rights. The first group is those countries which abuse human rights and use it as an excuse to interfere with internal affairs of other countries. The second group includes countries that are not coming from a nation’s will.

Currently five members of the Commitee of Human Rights Reporters are in detention. There is no news on the situation of Kouhyar Goodarzi and Saeed Haeri who are December 21 detainees. The families of Saeed Kalangi and Saeed Jalalifar, the detainees of december 30 are hoping to meet their children in the next few days.