Narges Mohammadi’s Meeting with Mothers and Children of Evin Women’s Ward Canceled

Narges Mohammadi: The meeting of mothers and children in the women’s ward of Evin has been canceled.

Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist currently in prison, reported that the meeting of mothers and children in the women’s ward of Evin prison has been canceled.

In her report published on her Instagram account, she stated that in the judiciary, not only justice and independence but also a shred of humanity is absent. In-person meetings in the women’s ward occur once a month, and the meetings of mothers and children have also been canceled.

Ms. Mohammadi specifically mentioned the in-person meeting of Samin Ehsani, a 36-year-old Baha’i prisoner, with her 5-year-old daughter, and wrote that the meeting of this mother and daughter is the most painful day in the women’s ward. The separation of Nina from her mother is accompanied by sobbing cries and restlessness, sometimes with her small hands clinging around her mother’s neck and sometimes clutching the handles and doors of the prison.

This human rights activist added, ‘I think to myself, how can a person witness such a moment, allow it to continue, and then go to their own child? I have often seen that at the moment of farewell, mothers and little daughters of my fellow inmates cry in the corners.’