Sentenced to death — Retrial or appeal pending
Sevda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi
سودا (مرضیه) ابراهیمی شمسآبادی
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What we know
- Status
- Sentenced to death — Retrial or appeal pending
- Watch category
- Under death sentence
- Age
- 33
- Prison
- Bandar Abbas Prison
- Province
- Hormozgan
- Charges
- Corruption on earth; insulting the Supreme Leader; media/propaganda activity; intelligence/security activity for hostile governments; photographing a military site and sending images abroad, as reported
- Last verified
- 25 ottobre 2026
- Independent sources
- 2Rights groups and news media, counted by origin. Social posts are not counted.
Souda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, a 32-year-old blogger, was born in Arak, grew up in Tehran, and later settled in Bandar Abbas, where she had built a following of about 10,000 on Instagram. She has lived with multiple sclerosis for around six years. Security forces arrested her on March 29, 2026. She reportedly spent 20 days in solitary confinement, during which her family did not know where she was. The Bandar Abbas Revolutionary Court sentenced her to death for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz), on accusations including insulting the Supreme Leader, propaganda against national security, intelligence activity for hostile governments, and photographing a missile strike site and sending the image to Persian-language media abroad. She also received two to five years in prison and confiscation of her property. Her lawyer was informed of the death sentence on August 23. Her appeal is now before Branch 41 of the Supreme Court, and she remains in Bandar Abbas Central Prison, where she has reportedly been denied specialist medical care.
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Stop the execution of Sevda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi
Dear Sir or Madam,
I am writing about Sevda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, who is held in Bandar Abbas Prison in Iran and faces the death penalty (Sentenced to death — Retrial or appeal pending).
I urge you to call on the Iranian authorities to halt this execution at once, quash the death sentence, and grant Sevda (Marzieh) Ebrahimi Shamsabadi a fair retrial without recourse to the death penalty, with a lawyer of their choice and no use of forced confessions.
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Case timeline
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· Status · recorded by an editorSentenced to death — Retrial or appeal pendingAfter she objected to the death sentence, her case was sent to Branch 41 of the Supreme Court. It also says she is being denied proper medical care.
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· Status · recorded by an editorSentenced to death
Sources
- HRANA ↗ · 15 settembre 2026
- Second source ↗
A death sentence is a status, not a permanent fact about a person. Every case has a check date and a source, and the earlier status is kept. An execution is recorded only with two independent rights-group or news sources, or with an editor’s written reason.