Free Student Activist Nasim Soltan Beigi

UPDATE CHRR 17 April , 2013

Nasim Soltan Beigi, journalist and student activist, granted prison release

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Journalist and former student activist Nasim Soltan Beigi who was on furlough for 25 days, was granted a pardon on April 11th when she went back to prison intending to serve the remainder of her prison term.

UPDATE CHRR 19 March 2013

Nasim Soltan Beigi granted furlough on bail for the Nowruz holidays.

Committee of Human Rights Reporters – On Monday March 18, journalist and former student activist Nasim Soltan Beigi was granted furlough and released from prison on bail.

According to CHRR, Nasim Soltan Beigi who has had 2 prior arrests, has worked at several media outlets including Shargh and Arman. On November 30, 2010, Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court handed this student activist and journalist a 6-year prison sentence; 3 years on the charge of “acting against national security,” one year for “propaganda against the regime,” and a 2-year suspended term stemming from a prior arrest in 2006. Soltan Beigi appealed this ruling and it was sent to the Appeals Court.

Nasim Soltan Beigi was a leftist student who was among students arrested in a widespread crackdown on student activists in November 2007. She spent 56 days behind bars in ward 209 of Evin prison before being released on bail. She had previously been arrested on June 12, 2006 at a rally of women activists and at that time was handed a 2-year suspended prison sentence.
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Nasim Soltan Beigi: Prisoner of the day
Student activist

CHRR: Nasim Soltan Beigi, a former Allameh Tabatabee University student and activist, returned to Evin Prison on October 13 to begin serving her six-year prison term.

On November 30, 2010, Branch 15 of Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced the student activist to a total of six years in prison on charges of "acting against national security" (3 years), and "propaganda against the regime" (one year), including a prior two-year sentence from 2006. An appeals court reviewed and upheld the decision later.

Nasim Soltan Beigi is a leftist student who was arrested in December 2007, during the widespread crackdown on leftist students, and spent 56 days inside the Intelligence Ministry's Ward 209. She was released on bail of $50,000 later. Nasim Soltan Beigi was sentenced to the two years' suspended prison term after she was arrested for the first time in 2006 at a gathering of women's rights activists in Tehran.