News Center- Nasim Simiari, who has been held in Evin prison for seven months, started a hunger strike to protest her unlawful detention and violation of her right to an attorney.

On May 14, 2023, Nasim Simiari was taken into custody by intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and transferred to a detention center in Evin prison. The intelligence agents confiscated her personal belongings, including identification documents, mobile phones and computer after searching her house.

After two months of interrogation and detention in a solitary cell, she was transferred to another solitary cell. According to a source close to her family, Nasim Simiari was coerced into a forced confession to the camera before being transferred to the solitary cell.

Nasim Simiari has been held in pre-trial detention in the women’s ward of Evin prison on charges of “gathering and collusion against the security of the country”, “propaganda against the regime” and “disrupting public order”.

Born in 1988 in Tehran, Nasim Simiari holds a degree in architecture and operated a women's beauty salon in Tehran before her detention.