Parvin Edavai, a women’s rights activist and former political prisoner, has been arrested again by Marivan security forces.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Parvin Edavai, a women’s and children’s rights activist from Selin village, Sarvabad, and a resident of Marivan, was detained by intelligence forces on Sunday, January 26, 2025.
Previously, on July 27, 2019, Parvin Edavai was arrested by Marivan intelligence agents and released three months later on a 500 million tomans bail.
She was later sentenced to five years in prison by the Marivan Revolutionary Court on charges of “membership in the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK),” which was reduced to two years in the Kurdistan Province Court of Appeals. On January 30, 2020, she was arrested to serve her two-year sentence and transferred to the Sanandaj Correctional and Rehabilitation Center.
On April 6, 2020, after serving approximately six months of her sentence in Sanandaj Central Prison, she was granted a Nowruz pardon and released.
At the time of this report, no precise information is available regarding the reasons for her arrest or her current whereabouts.