HRANA News Agency – In recent days a number of civil activists and former political prisoners from various parties has visited Mehdi Khodaei, a human rights activist who recently was released from prison after spending five and a half years imprisonment.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), civil activists and former political prisoners, including Emad Bahavar, Mohsen Mirdamadi, Zahra Mojaradi, Abdollah Momeni, Ahmad Reza Yousefi, Abolfazl Ghadiani, Majid Dorri, Fariborz Rais Dana, Bahman Ahmadi Amoui, Jila Bani Yaqoob, Masoud Pedram, Mohammad Davari, Artin Ghazanfari, Milad Fadaei, a group of former student activists of Azad University and numerous other civil activists during a meeting with Mr. Khodaei, congratulated his freedom and praise his resistance  during the five and a half years in prison. (more…)

HRANA News Agency – A large number of civil activists and citizens signed a petition, addressed to the head of Judiciary of Iran, calling for the Seyed Mehdi Khodaei’s freedom. The undersigned have emphasized the need for new Islamic law enforcement, on the bases of which a large number of current prisoners should be released.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), a group of human rights activists and citizens on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the arrest of Mr. Khodaei, by signing a letter has demanded the unconditional freedom of this civil activist. The signatories of the letter have appreciated Mr. Khodaei’s peaceful activities to promote the human rights and democracy in Iran and expressed their regret and sadness because of intimidation and torture implemented on this human rights defender to get fake confessions regardless of his sustainability. (more…)