Iran: Political Prisoners in Qarchak and Evin Prisons Commemorate Somayeh Rashidi
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Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
A number of prisoners, chanting slogans such as “Death to the dictator, death to Khamenei, damn Khomeini”, sang and cried out: “Somayeh is ill, yet she too has become a martyr.”
The so-called Student News Agency, affiliated with the Basij of Khamenei’s IRGC, by publishing a clip on September 25, 2025 of Somayeh Rashidi in which she chants “Death to Khamenei, hail to Maryam Rajavi”, attempted to cover up the “beatings,” “denial of medical treatment,” and other crimes committed by the executioners of Evin and Qarchak against this political prisoner, which led to her martyrdom. With extreme foolishness, it sought to equate this with the label of cooperation between the PMOI and the “Zionist regime during the 12-day war”
Screenshot from the Basij-run SNN claiming links between fallen political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi and the PMOI—September 25, 2025
Khamenei’s Basij also claimed that Somayeh had been “using certain illegal drugs,” trying to suggest that her treatment was “ineffective for this reason.” It remains unclear whether one should believe her three arrests and torture since 2022 and the ten operations attributed to her by the regime’s judiciary, or the claim of “addiction to synthetic drugs” (Mizan, September 25, 2025).
Audio recording of female political prisoners singing in chorus: “Somayeh lies in her blood, Somayeh has fallen like a tulip in bloom.”
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A number of political prisoners, in order to inform public opinion and prompt action by the UN Special Rapporteur, have written: “On May 2, 2025, while writing the slogan ‘The worker is awake; he despises both mullahs and Shah’, Somayeh Rashidi was arrested by Ministry of Intelligence forces. After spending 24 hours in an undisclosed detention center and being subjected to psychological torture, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison on May 3, 2025. Somayeh suffered from epilepsy and was taking medication for it… While the deceitful and lying media of the regime portrayed Somayeh as an addict in order to erase the traces of their crime under the cover of addiction, the reality is that Somayeh and others like her are not condemned to death because of addiction, but because of their fighting spirit and refusal to submit, which makes them enemies in the eyes of these executioners.
The reality, which prisoners in Evin and Qarchak can testify to, is that Somayeh’s illness worsened after her transfer from Evin to Qarchak due to the poor conditions and lack of medical care. Whenever she went to the infirmary, they would say she was feigning illness and send her back to the ward. Then, when she was at the point of death, they took her away, and it is no longer known what became of her.
Somayeh’s story may be like that of a lone bird, bearing witness to the killing of many innocent women and girls in the women’s general ward of this prison and in other prisons of the clerical regime. Somayeh was neither the first nor will she be the last to be imprisoned and massacred in the prisons of this homeland—the same regime that massacred 30,000 prisoners in 1988…”
Herewith, the audio clips of the commemoration ceremony for Somayeh by political prisoners in Evin and Qarchak on September 25 are presented to our fellow countrymen.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)
26 September 2025
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Audio recording of female political prisoners singing in chorus: “Somayeh lies in her blood, Somayeh has fallen like a tulip in bloom.”
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Video of Somayeh chanting: “Down with Khamenei, long live Maryam Rajavi!”
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Audio recording of male political prisoners singing the national anthem ‘Ey Iran’ in chorus.