Mr Shirzad, 27, an active member of the Society for Defending Street and Working Children has been accused of having contact with political prisoners’ families and cooperating with the office of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran.
The rights group said is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his peaceful human rights activism.
Saeed has been detained since 2 June 2014 and has spent over two months in solitary confinement in Section 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, without access to his family and lawyer and under pressure to make a video-taped “confession”, before he was transferred to Section 8, where people jailed for non-political crimes are held. His lawyer has not been allowed to meet him in prison or even access his court file.
The authorities have not yet issued a formal indictment against Saeed Shirzad but they told him of the charges against him when they took him to the Prosecutor’s Office in Evin Prison on 18 August.
These include “gathering and colluding against national security” and “propaganda against the system”.