Meeting with Elham Ahmadi

"Meeting" is a brief narrative about those whose lives are confined to a four-walled space called prison. In each segment of this series, we visit one of those who are referred to as "political-prisoners" by human rights organizations. One of the women is a dervish who was arrested on the first of Esfand 1396 (February 19, 2018) during clashes between Gonabadi dervishes and police forces on Pasdaran Street in Tehran and has been imprisoned in Qarchak Prison in Varamin since then. Elham Ahmadi, who is in Ward 7 of Qarchak Prison, reported a few months ago about the poor conditions of this prison, shortages, and the lack of access for prisoners to health and medical facilities. Elham Ahmadi also informed about the physical condition of Shahnaz Kian-Asl, another dervish woman in this prison, which led to a legal case being opened against her by the head of Qarchak Prison for the charges of spreading falsehoods and insulting officials while performing their duties. The information in this audio file relates to the time of its preparation, editing, and publication, and the status of the political and ideological prisoner in this report may have changed since what is heard in this program.