Judge tells children’s activist that she should have been executed Tehran- July 7, 2010 On Sunday, July 4, Maryam Zia, a children and women’s rights activist was summoned to the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court and was tried by Mohammad Moqiseh who was a member of the death commission responsible for the execution of political prisoners in the 1988 massacre. The trial was held despite the fact that the representative of the prosecutor was not present. Her trial started at about 9:30 am. Moqiseh mistreated her much like intelligence interrogators and raised his voice to make threats and verbally abuse her. “You are a Monafeq (literally meaning hypocrite used for members and supporters of the PMOI by the regime)”, Mohammad Moqiseh told her in the end. “You should have been executed”. This children and women’s rights activist was trialed on charges of ‘spreading propaganda against the government’. Maryam Zia is suffering from physical ailments which she developed in her time in prison and is currently being treated by a specialist.