HRANA News Agency – Fahimeh Soltani, a law student at the University of Isfahan, was arrested by security forces on Wednesday, May 28, and transferred to Dolatabad Prison in Isfahan to begin serving a one-year prison sentence.
Amirkabir Newsletter, reporting the arrest, stated that she was detained for the enforcement of her one-year prison sentence and subsequently transferred to Dolatabad Prison.
Soltani’s sentence, initially issued by Branch 1 of the Isfahan Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Mohammad Tavakoli—one year of mandatory imprisonment and two years suspended—was recently upheld by the Court of Appeals and finalized by the Supreme Court. Among the charges brought against her was “encouraging war and bloodshed.”
Soltani, who was previously arrested on April 6, 2024, after being summoned to the IRGC Intelligence Office in Isfahan, had been released on bail from Dastgerd Prison on April 29, 2024.
She has a history of previous arrests due to her activism and was also suspended from her studies for two and a half semesters in May 2023 by the University of Isfahan’s disciplinary committee.
HRANA’s report shows that in 2024, Iranian regime courts—both primary and appeals courts—issued a total of 33,574 months of prison sentences (equivalent to 2,797 years) against Iranian citizens for their political and civil activities. This total represents more than a 1.5-fold increase compared to the previous five-year period.
