Iranian political prisoner and human rights activists Farhad Meysami has written an open letter from inside Iran’s Evin prison, criticizing his treatment at the hands of Iranian courts and rejecting stated US concerns for the human rights situation in Iran and for his own case in particular.
Meysami was arrested in July over protests related to the compulsory hijab. Authorities confiscated from his home pins that read “I am against compulsory hijab.” He began a hunger strike in August in protest against his conditions and lack of access to proper legal representation. His case has been referenced by a number of international organizations, including Amnesty International, which condemned Iranian authorities for pressuring him to end his hunger strike, and United Nations human rights experts, who have called for his release.
