Shocking testimony of an Iranian poet: I was blindfolded and left in solitary confinement for 38 days

While Iran is on fire, after the death of Mahsha Amini after her arrest by the Ethos police, shocks the testimony her Iranian poet Fatme Ektesari who was arrested by the Iranian authorities and sentenced to 11.5 years imprisonment and to 99 lashes and finally had to leave the country to survive. Ektesari, from Norway where she now lives, describes how she was grabbed after returning to Iran from a poetry festival in Stockholm she had attendedshe was blindfolded and held in solitary confinement for 38 days.

“My family didn’t know where I was, I didn’t have a lawyer, all this was illegal,” says the Iranian poet speaking to SKAI.

Ektesari she was also sentenced to 99 lashes because a photo of her standing next to a man was found on her computer. “You know, women are not allowed to stand next to a man. So I was thinking that if they whip me I might not survive. Therefore, I had to find a way to leave Iran” she says excitedly.

The story of Fatme Ektesari

Irani poetess – writer Fatmeh Ektesari, arrested for censorship against the Iranian government and held in solitary confinement for 38 days in Tehran prisons.

In order to be released from prison, as reported by SKAI, he paid warrantywhose cost was equal to that of a house, and for two years she appeared in court every month until her case was heard.

Ultimately, he was sentenced to 99 lashes and 11.5 years in prison for crimes against the Iranian government, immoral behavior, and blasphemy.

She herself was afraid that she would not survive he paid smugglers and crossed from Iran to Iraqa country also not at all friendly to women AND from there to Turkey. Today she lives free in Norway.