Giti Pour Fazel

Giti Pour Fazel, a judicial lawyer and civil rights activist, was one of the 14 signatories of the open letter which demanded the resignation of Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, the transition from the Islamic Republic, and the drafting of a new "Constitution".The other signatories of this letter are "Shahla Jahanbin", "Farangis Mazloum", "Fatemeh Sepehri", "Zahra Jamali", "Narges Mansouri", "Hourieh Entesari", and "Shahla Ansari"; All were arrested and taken to court.Pourfazel and other signatories were arrested on 19 August 2019. After a month of investigation, she was transferred to Evin Prison. Pourfazel was granted temporary release on 13 November of the same year on payment of $119,000 bail.
She was subsequently tried at Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. The presiding Judge, Iman Afshari, sentenced Pourfazel to four years and two months in prison. The judge handed Pourfazel a 42month sentence for "unlawful assembly" and "collusion to undermine national security." She was also given an eightmonth prison sentence for "sedition." The court further banned her from being a member of any political group or faction for two years. Authorities had transferred Ms Pourfazel to Tehran's Evin Prison to serve a 27month prison sentence. After contracting the coronavirus, she was granted a medical leave on 24 July 2021 but had to return to prison in midSeptember.
However, the court has approved the conditional release of Ms Pourfazel on 15 September 2021 under the condition that she must not associate with people who hold corrupt and provocative ideas and pose a security threat.Ms Poufazel has represented many famous political activists like Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Kourosh Zaim, Alborz and Hamid GhassemiShaal, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Sedigheh Moradi, Omid Dana, Peyman Aref, Serajjedin Mirdamadi, several Baha'is in Shiraz, the family of Sattar Beheshti and several others until I retired in 2013.