Meeting with Ansieh Abdolhosseini

"Meeting" is a brief narrative about those whose lives are confined to a four-walled space called prison. In each section of this program, we visit one of those who are referred to as 'political-prisoners' by human rights organizations. Ansieh Abdolhosseini is a civil activist residing in Tehran who has been arrested multiple times over the past year and has been serving her sentence in Evin Prison since February. She was first arrested during the nationwide protests in December 2017 in Tehran and was released on bail after a month of detention in Ward 209 of Evin and Qarchak Prison. In addition to participating in the December 2017 protests, she was also active on social media, writing critical pieces about the executions of the 1980s and mass graves in the Khavaran cemetery. The information in this audio file pertains to the time of its preparation, editing, and publication, and the situation of the political prisoner in question may have changed since this report was made. The severe government crackdown and the risk of protests going 'underground' are highlighted, along with accounts from doctors and eyewitnesses regarding the injured during the protests, and the evident limitations in China-Iran relations amid the protests.