Aso Rostami Transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison

HRANA News Agency – While Aso Rostami’s mother was threatened on the phone by a security agent, Mr. Rostami was transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj on November 4, 2016. Rostami family are extremely concerned about the fate of their child.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), on November 4, Mr. Rostami was transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj to serve his sentence.
A close source to the Rostami family told HRANA’s reporter: “On November 3, Aso Rostami’s mother was threatened on the phone after being informed about her son’s arrest to not to speak to the media.”
The source added: “The Rostami family is extremely concerned about the fate of their child, because Aso has said in a contact with his family that he was being threatened and was said that ‘we will send you where the previous place is like a hotel.’ After his transfer to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, there is no new news.”
On November 3, Aso Rostami, civil rights activist was arrested violently to serve his 2-year sentence by security forces and then they searched and confiscated his belongings and transferred him to Evin prison.
It should be noted, civil rights activist, Aso Rostami had been arrested along with several other civil society activists on October 8, 2015 after holding a rally in front of UN office in support of Kobani, and after interrogation and being held in the solitary confinement he was transferred to ward 8 of Evin prison.
Due to his peaceful civic activism, on the charges of propaganda against the regime, assembly and collusion against the national security and insulting the supreme leader he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. His trial was held along with 3 other civil society activists in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Moghiseh and eventually these people were sentenced to a total of 38 years in prison.
Activities in virtual networks and publishing critical articles about the human rights situation and executions in Iran, empathy and solidarity with the families of political prisoners and families of prisoners sentenced to death, participating in a rally in defense of Kobani, sympathy for the families of victims of 2009 incidents and connection with human rights activists were the applicable charges that had been proposed against the activist.
Aso Rostami’s case is now in Branch 36 of the Appeals Court and in final stage awaiting a ruling. The children’s rights activist was released after 16 months in prison on February 3.

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