Female political prisoner denied due process

Committee of Human Rights Reporters
Mahdieh Golro was tried on Sunday April 4 in the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abasi.
The trial of this student activist was held without prior notice and without the presence of her lawyer. She was charged with 'spreading propaganda against the government, assembling and conspiring to disrupt national security and working with and having communications with the Monafeghin (PMOI)'.
The judge did not allow Golro to defend herself for the charge of having 'communications with the Monafeghin'…
Her husband Vahid La'lipour said that his wife's trial was much like that of Zia Nabavi and Majid Dori (both students activists sentenced to heavy prison terms). He also protested the 'offensive treatment' of the court clerk with the Golro family and said that despite the fact that her family had an 'entrance permit' they were prevented from entering court.