stonewalled her efforts.

The 30-year-old had been previously arrested, in February 2012, and was released 50 days later on bail. A Revolutionary Court later sentenced him to nine months in prison for spreading “propaganda against the regime,” which he served from December 2013. Ardeshir was then sent to mandatory national service after serving his prison sentence.

A friend of Behnam Eskandarian, meanwhile, told IranWire: “Six days after his arrest, Behnam called his family briefly, saying that he had been badly beaten and needed 20 million Iranian rials [about $600] to be taken to the prison. When his family went there, they found that after a period in solitary confinement, Behnam was transferred to a cell with a meth addict who beat him and extorted him for money. Prison guards didMuslims.) Yalda was able to call her family after the first five days and told her family of her whereabouts. Her family then tried to visit her but were told that Yalda was not allowed to receive visitors.

Yalda’s sisters, Golrokh and Shidrokh, were also arrested in 2012 and were held for 40 days until charged with spreading “propaganda against the regime” and sentenced to six months in prison. They served their sentences separately, in 2013 and 2014.

Their father, Hazhir Firuzian, was also detained for 40 days in February 2014. He had been visiting one of his daughters in prison, and discovered that she had been assaulted by the interrogator; Firuzian tried to press criminal charges, without success. He wrote to officials to describe the situation – and was