"A US-Iranian dual citizen has been detained in Iran and is facing multiple security-related charges, according to her son, who says authorities are using his mother to pressure him. Germany-based political activist Reza Zarrabi told RFE/RL's Radio Farda on November 19 that his 70-year-old mother, Afarin Mohajer, was arrested on September 29 at Imam Khomeini International Airport as she was leaving the country after a visit. He said intelligence officers with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) detained Mohajer, who is being kept in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison."
"Mohajer, who resides in Los Angeles, has an inoperable brain tumor and has been told by "a doctor before going to prison that she does not have long to live," Zarrabi said. She had traveled to Iran to handle her husband's personal affairs following his death, he added. Zarrabi said he learned about his mother's charges through a lawyer who typically handles political cases. He listed the charges as: forming a dissident group, membership in dissident groups, propaganda against the establishment, insulting the supreme leader, and insulting sacred values."
Afarin Mohajer, a 70-year-old US-Iranian dual citizen and Los Angeles resident, was arrested on September 29 at Imam Khomeini International Airport while leaving Iran after a visit. Intelligence officers with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) detained her, and she is being held in Tehran's Evin Prison. Mohajer has an inoperable brain tumor and was told by a doctor before imprisonment that she does not have long to live. She traveled to Iran to handle her late husband's personal affairs. Her son, Germany-based political activist Reza Zarrabi, lists charges including forming and joining dissident groups, propaganda against the establishment, insulting the supreme leader, and insulting sacred values. Zarrabi alleges authorities are using Mohajer to pressure him and that she has been subjected to coercion and torture to force the closure of his opposition council.
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