Former political prisoner Ali Ensandoost is still detained for over a month as he awaits due process. He was recently relocated to the quarantine section.
According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Ali Ensandoost is still in detention awaiting due process in Langerood Prison in Qom.
On August 13, 2022, security forces arrested Ensandoost at his house. Last week, he was transferred from an IRGC detention facility to Langarud Prison in Qom. According to an informed source, recently, he has been relocated to the quarantine section.
The reason for his arrest and the charges are unknown so far.
Ensandoost had faced arrest and conviction before. On April 28, 2020, security forces arrested him in Rasht for his activities on social media and an interview with opposition media outside the country. He was interrogated in a detention facility until September 2020 when he was transferred to Langerud Prison and held in a ward with prisoners of violent crimes.
The Revolutionary Court of Qom sentenced Ensandoost to eight years in prison on the charges of “collaboration with hostile countries, insulting the Supreme Leader, and propaganda against the regime”. After plea bargaining, the sentence was reduced to four years and six months. On December 26, 2021, Ensandoost was released to serve the rest of his sentence in home detention with an electronic monitoring device.