4 Years in Prison; a Report on the Latest Status of Navid Khanjani

HRANA News Agency – Navid Khanjani, human rights activist, started his 4th year in prison while he has been deprived of having furlough.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the third year of the imprisonment sentence of Navid Khanjani, Bahai human rights activist, was finished on August 7. His family and a group of civil rights activists held a ceremony for this reason.

A close source to this human rights activist told HRANA’s reporter, “Previously Mr. Khodabakhshi himself recommended his family to tell him to write a furlough request. First Navid was resisting, but when his family insisted, he requested the furlough. We were then told that it is denied and nobody told us who had rejected the request”.

According to this source, the mental condition of Navid Khanjani in prison is “not too bad”, but because of the hits to his back and spinal problems that he got in his 4th and 5th spines he has to be careful and is not able to exercise.

Navid Khanjani, a member of Human Rights Reporters and Committee for Defending the Right for Education, was arrested by the security forces in 2009 and spent two months in prison. Then he was sentenced in branch number 26 of the revolutionary court, with chief judge Pirabbasi, to 12 years in prison and 400000 Tomans fine. This sentence was confirmed in the court of appeal.

Navid Khanjani was arrested again in Tabriz, and was transferred to quarantine ward of Rajaei Shahr prison on September 5, 2012.

He is charged with propaganda against the regime by publicizing news and reports and having interview with foreign radio and televisions, roorback, being a member of the committee of human rights reporters, and finally, founding the group to protest against the educational discrimination.

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