Embedded in the NUFDI tweet is a video of Shariatmadari, who says “This is without cause… they chose a few people for deportation.” After a two-day detention in 2018, she was released and eventually fled to Turkey. The US government news outlet Voice of America reported at the time that a sister of Shariatmadari “sent an audio message in which she said her sibling and their mother had been beaten by unknown individuals who detained them in the southern Tehran district of Shahr Rey.”The Center for Human Rights in Iran reported in 2018 that a Tehran criminal court sentenced Shariatmadari to a year in prison for her protest, convicting her for “encouraging corruption by removing her hijab.”Iranian lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is currently incarcerated for human rights work, represented Shariatmadari. Sotoudeh told Deutsche Welle’s Persian service at the time that the Iranian authorities freed the mother hours after the beatings. They detained Shariatmadari, confiscating her computer and other personnel possessions. The Iranian-American named Rastakhiz on Twitter wrote: “Iranian women rights activist #MaryamShariatmadari is in danger of deportation to Iran from Turkey where she sought asylum 2 years ago. She is one of the courageous “girls of Revolution street” who publicly defied compulsory veiling. Her deportation can put her life in danger.The Jerusalem Post has sent press queries to Turkey’s government.URGENT:Iranian women's rights activist & political refugee #MaryamShariatmadari has been detained by Turkish authorities and is facing deportation to #Iran where she will be imprisoned and possibly tortured and executed.@Refugees, @UNHCRTurkey save her life!#مریم_شریعتمداری pic.twitter.com/nsTvveV3iV
— NUFDI (@NUFDIran) September 7, 2020