22nd June 2020 / Following a raid by security agents on the Imam Ali Charity Organization, the charity center was sealed up and Sharmin Meimandai-Nejad along with two other individuals with unknown identities were detained and moved to an undisclosed location.
According to Human Rights in Iran citing the Fars news agency, in the last hours on Sunday, June 21, 2010, Sharmin Meimandi-Nejad and two other people were arrested following a raid by security agents on the Imam Ali Charity Organization in Tehran and the charity was shut down by a security organ for its alleged links to anti-regime centers.
“Last night it was reported that some media outlets reported the arrest of Sharmin Meimandi-Nejad, the managing director of the Imam Ali Charity Organization along with two other individuals. Based on this, it has been determined that this person has cooperated with anti-regime centers under coverage of public benefits affairs”, the news agency claimed.
Also it was claimed: “According to the information obtained, the key elements of the center in addition to insulting the sacred and promoting deviant anti-religious ideas, have cooperated with the dissident and foreign media.”
Security organs such as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence in Iran align the activities of the charities, civil society activists and environmental activists with charges such as espionage or other related charges, thereby repressing the citizens, which violates the principle of freedom of expression and opinion and Article 19 of Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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