News Center- Mona Bakhtiari, sister of Pouya Bakhtiari who was shot and killed in Karaj during the 2019 Iranian protests, published a video message on Instagram on Wednesday, saying  that her mother, Nahid Shirpisheh, had been beaten in Zanjan prison.

“Today, I went to the prison to see my mother. However, I found out that she had been assaulted and beaten in prison although judicial and security authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran promised many times that they would release her.”

In September 2022, the First Branch of Karaj Revolutionary Court sentenced Nahid Shirpisheh to five years in prison on charges of “assembling and colluding to act against national security” and “propaganda against the state” for seeking justice for her son.

In the video message, Mona Bakhtiari expressed her concern about the health condition of her father, Manouchehr Bakhtiari. “He needs to be transferred to the hospital in order to undergo a surgery,” she said, demanding immediate release of her parents.

Mona Bakhtiari was summoned and interrogated by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology two months ago. “The officers asked me to cooperate with them and give them the information about my aunt and uncles but I refused.”