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On the same day, Inger Andersen, Executive Director of the UN environmental program (UNEP), \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/andersen_inger\/status\/1533125789885124610?s=20\u0026amp;t=RDwciZh8VQZnn1l9W1RcrA\u0022\u003Ecalled\u003C\/a\u003E for the release of her \u201cformer colleague and conservationist Niloufar Bayani and other conservationists imprisoned in Iran.\u201d\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 2018, the Revolutionary Guards\u2019 Intelligence Organization \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/02\/19\/iran-environmentalists-unjust-sentences-upheld\u0022\u003Earrested\u003C\/a\u003E Bayani and Kashani together with Kavous Seyed Emami, Amir-Hossein Khaleghi, Morad Tahbaz, Taher Ghadirian, Houman Jowkar, and Abdolreza Kouhpayeh. All eight were members of the local Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation (PWHF), a group focused on preserving biodiversity in Iran.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESeyed Emami, an Iranian-Canadian sociology professor, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/02\/13\/iran-investigate-suspicious-deaths-detention-release-activists\u0022\u003Edied\u003C\/a\u003E in custody under suspicious circumstances. Judicial authorities accused the group of using environmental projects as a cover for espionage but have failed to provide any evidence into such allegations. Over the past four years authorities violated their due process rights and deprived them of the right to a fair trial. Bayani has alleged in court that she and others in the group have been subject to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/02\/19\/iran-environmentalists-unjust-sentences-upheld\u0022\u003Etorture\u003C\/a\u003E while in detention. In February, the BBC Persian website\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/persian\/iran-features-51549394\u0022\u003E published\u003C\/a\u003E a detailed account of the alleged mistreatment of Bayani by prison authorities based on her letters, including \u201c1,200 hours of interrogations,\u201d \u201clong hours of interrogation while standing,\u201d \u201cthreatening with a hallucinogenic injection,\u201d and \u201csexual insults.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn February 18, 2020, a court of appeal \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/donya-e-eqtesad.com\/%D8%A8%D8%AE%D8%B4-%D8%B3%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%AA-%D8%AE%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86-62\/3627214-%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85-%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D8%AD%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%81%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AD%DB%8C%D8%B7-%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B2-%D8%B2%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%B3%D8%AE%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%88%DB%8C-%D9%82%D9%88%D9%87-%D9%82%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D9%87\u0022\u003Eupheld\u003C\/a\u003E sentences ranging from 6 to 10 years in prison against all the activists on the charge of \u201ccooperating with the hostile state of the US.\u201d The court also upheld a 4-year prison sentence against Kouhpayeh on the charge of \u201cassembly and collusion to act against national security.\u201d Kouhpayeh is the only one who has been released in 2020, apart from Emami who died in custody, and the other six are still in custody.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]