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The
news has just got out that Negar Haeri, a lawyer and former political prisoner,
was deliberately ran over by unidentified persons on December 17, 2015.
She
had previously been threatened time and again and finally on December 17, she
was chased by a black Peugeot 405 with dark windows and hit after she got out
of her car in Shahrara district. The Peugeot then sped away and disappeared.
Ms.
Haeri was subsequently transferred to hospital. She suffered a broken right arm
and a broken left leg and bruises all over her body.
Ms.
Haeri had been summoned on phone to Evin’s Prosecutor’s Office on May 18, 2015,
where she was insulted and arrested in front of her mother. She was held in the
Evin’s women’s ward for one day and transferred to solitary confinement for
another nine days where she was interrogated under torture. She was ultimately
released on May 27, 2015.
Before
this, she spent eight months in Varamin’s Qarchak prison and was released only
after much efforts and on a 2billion-touman bail.
Ms.
Haeri’s license for law practice was annulled and she was not banned from
giving legal advice to her clients. Security and intelligence officers have
instructed her not to leave Tehran in any circumstances.
