News Center- Maryam Sadat Yahyavi, a political activist imprisoned in Iran’s Evin prison, has been deprived of her right to phone calls with her family for more than 50 days for publishing a letter outside of the prison.

According to the local reports, the activist has been denied access to both phone calls with her family and family visits since August 7 by the disciplinary committee of the prison for publishing a letter outside of the prison to support Pakhshan Azizi, who was sentenced to death in July 2024.

On November 2, 2014, Maryam Sadat Yahyavi was arrested at her home by Iranian security forces. After 17 days of detention in Evin Prison, she was released on bail. The Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced her to nine years in prison on charges such as “spreading propaganda against the regime” and “assembly and collusion against national security” during her arrest on November 2, 2014. Then, her prison sentence was reduced to one year following an appeal.

On March 3, 2024, she began to serve her one-year prison sentence in Evin prison following her appearance at Evin Courthouse.