Peaceful activities for which she was charged include distributing anti-death penalty leaflets and making posts on Facebook and Twitter criticising Iran's execution record.

She participated in protests appealing for an end to capital punishment, and attended rallies on behalf of children in Syria.

[2][3] Atena Daemi was arrested on 21 October 2014; she was kept in solitary confinement, denied access to a lawyer, and repeatedly interrogated for 86 days.

[4] She was accused of “gathering and colluding against national security”, “spreading propaganda against the system”, “concealing evidence” and “insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Supreme Leader”.

[5] The appeal was based on Article 134 of the New Islamic Penal Code, under which her sentence was reduced to the maximum length of the most serious charge, seven years.

[10] Daemi was re-arrested at her parents home, in front of her sisters, on 26 November 2016 and returned to Evin Prison.

She formally complained to the Office of the Prosecutor in Evin prison about the actions of the Revolutionary Guards who arrested her.

She was moved along with Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, who had been imprisoned for writing an unpublished fictional story that criticized the practice of stoning women to death.

[17][better source needed] Amnesty international again appealed for their immediate and unconditional release on the grounds that they have been imprisoned for the peaceful exercise of their human rights.

[19] On 10 October 2018, World Day Against the Death Penalty, Daemi, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, and Maryam Akbari Monfared signed a letter publicly appealing to Javaid Rehman, as a United Nations Special Rapporteur, to assess possible human rights violations in Iran, including the use of the death penalty.