Varisheh Moradi, a political prisoner serving her sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison, has begun a hunger strike to protest the death sentences handed to female activists in Iran.
Moradi, imprisoned in the women's ward of Evin, started the hunger strike on Thursday.
A source told IranWire that during Moradi's second court hearing on October 5, Judge Abolqasem Salavati prohibited her lawyers from speaking.
The Ministry of Intelligence forces arrested Moradi in Sanandaj on August 1, 2023.
During the investigation phase in Tehran's Revolutionary and General Prosecutor's Office, she was charged with "rebellion" due to her membership in one of the Kurdish opposition parties.
In the laws of the Islamic Republic, the charge of "rebellion" is defined as an "armed uprising against the Islamic Republic" and carries the death penalty.
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