A short update to confirm that Nazanin’s appeal hearing finally happened this week on Wednesday. It was held again as a secret trial, with her family and the wider public unable to attend. The appeal had been filed 4 months earlier. The appeal court was a Revolutionary Court (Court 54), heard by three judges in the presence of a number of Revolutionary Guards from both Kerman and Tehran branches, those who held her originally, and more recently, plus members of the Judiciary. Nazanin and her lawyer were present. It lasted 3 hours. No verdict was announced at the end of the hearing, and none has appeared since. Since the trial, Nazanin’s family have not been able to meet with her lawyer to get any more information on what happened inside the courtroom. Since the trial, we have also had no contact with Nazanin. Today we had been hoping to get an update on what happened directly from her, since Sunday is visiting day for close family members of prisoners in the general cells. Today Nazanin’s parents and Gabriella joined the other families of those women held in the women’s political ward with their letters of accreditation to make that visit. However, Gabriella and her grandparents were prevented from visiting Nazanin, which Gabriella did not take well, as you can see from the picture taken outside Evin prison today. Gabriella has not seen mummy since Christmas Day. Last week Nazanin’s parents had been allowed to visit Nazanin alongside the families of the other women political prisoners (more on their support next time). Last week the prison authorities had also agreed to an additional weekly visit for Gabriella on Wednesdays. However today the prison authorities informed her family that Nazanin would not be allowed visits alongside the other women in her ward, contrary to previous promises, but only under high security conditions in Ward 2a, under the control of the Revolutionary Guard. I hope that the attempts made this week to prevent any discussions of Nazanin’s trial with her family, and efforts to keep her currently isolated, have no negative bearing on efforts to ensure her trial is fair. And I hope next week brings Nazanin and Gabriella kinder news. As the Guards know, kindness is a mark of faith...