Information received by Iran International indicates that Sara Tabrizi, a former political prisoner in Iran, has died under suspicious circumstances.
The body of the 20-year-old woman was found in her father’s house in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sunday.
According to the Iran International report, Tabrizi was subjected in the last weeks of her life to severe psychological pressure by the security agents of the Iranian government and was summoned to Iran’s infamous Ministry of Intelligence just one day before her death.
On November 16, Tabrizi was detained by security forces at Tehran’s International Airport, along with another citizen, while on her way to England. She was sent to Ward 29 of the Evin prison, belonging to the Ministry of Intelligence. After around ten days of interrogation, she was released on a bail of 10 billion rials ($20,000).
According to the information received by Iran International “Sara was threatened by the interrogators that if she fails to cooperate with them, she will be sent back to solitary confinement and that the private content of her cell phone would be made public so that it would reach her family,” a source close to Tabrizi’s family revealed to Iran International.
Tabrizi was once again summoned and detained on January 8, this time released on a bail of 20 billion rials ($40,000).
Subsequently tried by notorious Judge Iman Afshari in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, she was sentenced to suspended imprisonment over such charges as “insulting Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and using fake documents and someone else’s passport.”
In an official report submitted to Tabrizi’s family in the presence of security agents, Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization announced “taking pills” as the cause of her death.
Referring to people dying suspiciously in prisons or shortly after release, the Iranian regime often claims they have committed suicide, though it is now widely disregarded as propaganda.
“Her family found no empty pill box near her corpse. They do not know whether she committed suicide, had a stroke or was killed by the agents themselves,” the source told Iran International.