this is Atena Daemi. she’s a iranian civil rights activist, children's rights activist and human rights activist which is currently being held in prison in Iran. #FreeAtena

she was arrested in 2014 and was was kept in solitary confinement, denied access to a lawyer, and repeatedly interrogated for 86 days. in 2015, she was sentenced to fourteen years in prison, on several counts. The longest sentence was seven years for “assembly and collusion”.

Her sentence relates to peaceful activism, including charges related to distributing anti-death penalty leaflets and posts on Facebook and Twitter criticising Iran's execution record.

Atena was was released on bail, after a payment of 5500 million rials, on 15 February 2016. but she was re-arrested at her parents home on 26 November 2016 and returned to Evin Prison.

On 23 March 2017, Atena and her sisters were charged and convicted with “insulting public officers on duty”. They were sentenced to three months and one day. This term of imprisonment was added to Daemi's sentence, but suspended for her sisters.

In april 2017, she started a hunger strike to protest the addition of three months and one day to her seven-year sentence and the sentencing of her sisters.

A letter was written by Amnesty International on 17 May 2017 asked for Atena to be transferred from prison to a hospital because she had been coughing up blood, and had suffered severe weight loss, nausea, vomiting, blood pressure fluctuations, and kidney pain.

However, the authorities at Evin Prison refused to authorize her transfer to a hospital outside prison for medical treatment. Her hunger strike ended on 1 June 2017, after an appeals court struck down the additional charges against her and her sisters.

On 24 January 2018, Daemi was transferred to Shahr-e Rey prison. Atena and another prisoner, Golrokh Ebrahimi began a hunger strike on 3 February 2018 following their transfer.

Atena remained on hunger strike until 15 February 2018, 22 days. Golrokh Ebrahimi continued her hunger strike until 24 April 2018, lasting 81 days. They were returned to Evin Prison's Women's on May 10, 2018.

Atena also has long been suffering from persistent dizziness and numbness in the right eye area. The medical physician in Shahr-e Rey Prison had requested an MRI for her but she has not been transferred to the hospital. #FreeAtena