Hassan Amini Transferred to Sanandaj Prison to Serve Sentence

On July, Hassan Amini, the brother of Mohammad Amini, who was killed at the hands of regime forces during the 2022 nationwide protests, was arrested to serve his prison sentence and transferred to Sanandaj Prison, according to a report by Kurdpa.

In July 2023, Mr. Amini was sentenced by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Bukan to six months and fifteen days in prison and forty lashes for “disrupting public order.”

Amini was arrested by security forces on June 9th last year during a protest gathering at the burial place of Danial Pabandi, another victims during the the 2022 nationwide protests. He was released on bail from Bukan Prison after four days of detention.

According to published reports, Mohammad Amini was shot and killed by security forces on October 8, 2022, during protests in Sanandaj.

A Comprehensive Report of the First 82 days of Nationwide Protests in Iran

Ā  HRANA ā€“ Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old young woman, was arrested by the morality police for the crime of improper hijab. Her arrest and death in detention fueled nationwide protests in Iran. Protesters came to the streets with the central slogan ā€œWomen, Life, Freedomā€ in protest against the performance, laws, and structure of the regime. The following 486-page report is dedicated to the statistical review, analysis, and summary of the first eighty-two days of the ongoing protests (September 17 to December 7, 2022). In this report, in addition to the geographic analysis and the presentation of maps and charts, the identity of 481 deceased, including 68 children and teenagers, an estimated of 18,242 arrested along with the identity of 3,670 arrested citizens, 605 students and 61 journalists or activists in the field of information is compiled. In addition, the report includes a complete collection of 1988 verified video reports by date and topic. The report examines protests across 1115 documented gatherings in all 31 provinces of the country, including 160 cities and 143 universities.

Summary

Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, a young 22-year-old woman from Saqqez, Kurdistan was visiting Tehran, when she was taken into custody on Tuesday, September 13, 2022, by the Morality Police officers at the Haqqani metro station in Tehran. The reason for her arrest: not properly observing the strict Islamic dress code. Mahsa/Zhina was taken to the infamous detention center of Moral Security Police known as Vozara.
Shortly after Mahsaā€™s arrest, she went into a coma with level three concussion, and her partially alive body was transferred to the intensive care unit of Kasra Hospital. Given the track record of the police and Guidance Patrols in mistreating the arrestees and similar previous incidents, with the believe that Mahsa was beaten during the arrest people were outraged.

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Unpersuasive explanations given by the Central Command of the Islamic Republic Police Force (FARAJA) in defense of its actions regarding the death of Mahsa, the past performance of the police force, along with widespread dissatisfaction with the existence of a body called the Moral Security Police, fueled widespread protests in Iran.
The widespread protests sparked at the time Mahsa Amini was announced dead in front of Kasra Hospital on Argentina Street in Tehran, and then quickly spread to the streets despite the intimidating presence of Iranā€™s security forces. The protests intensified after Mahsaā€™s burial in a Saqqez cemetery. To the extent that after eighty-two days of nationwide protests between September 17, 2022, to December 7, 2022, they have spread to Iranā€™s all 31 provinces, 160 cities, and 143 major universities.
The protests did not stay limited to Mahsaā€™s death, it rather, quickly targeted the Iranian governmentā€™s political and ideological foundations. These protests were violently quashed by the anti-riot police and Iranā€™s militia force (Basij). teargas, pellets, and live ammunition were used in the repression of protestors. This widespread crackdown has led to the death of dozens of people and the wounding of hundreds of protestors.
Despite sever communication restrictions imposed by the Islamic Republic, this report attempts to give a clearer picture of the first 82 days of the protests between September 17, to December 7, 2022. Itā€™s worth mentioning at the time of this report the protests are still ongoing in various forms.

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The Updated Identities of 38 Prisoners with National-Security Charges in Ward 7 of Evin Prison

The following list contains the name of the prisoners with national-security charges who are currently imprisoned in ward 7 of Evin Prison and have charges such as ā€œrelationship with enemy statesā€ and ā€œespionageā€. Most of these prisoners are in the ward 7 but some of them are locted in wards 4 and 8 of Evin Prison. Many of these prisoners have denied their charges and believe their charges are based on political intentions. In this list, there are many dual-citizens or prisoners with permanent residence permit of a foreign country.

Most of the prisoners with national-security charges are tried based on the Article 501 (espionage) or the Article 508 (collaboration with an enemy state) of the Islamic Penal Law. Due to lack of transparency in the trial process by the judicial system and uncertainty in having a fair trial, this list is created according to charges pressed by the judicial system against these prisoners. Human Rights Activists News Agency in IranĀ (HRANA) is unable to confirm or reject such charges. HRANA updates the list of the prisoners based on different categories, charges, and geographical location periodically in order to inform its audience and support victims of human rights violations.

The following is the updated identities of 38 prisoners with national-security charges in the ward 7 of Evin Prison:

 

  1. Amir Hossein (Iman) Seyrafi, was sentenced to a seven-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with a hostile governmentā€. He is a computer engineer and his expertise are in cyber security.
  2. Amir Salimi Aghdam was sentenced to a five-year prison term on the charge of ā€œespionageā€. He is a professor with a jurisdiction doctorate degree.
  3. Babak Al-Ebrahim was sentenced to a three-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a masterā€™s degree in economy from Germany.
  4. Javid Javidnia was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a doctoral degree in geophysics from the Netherlands.
  5. Ahmad Reza Jalali (Djalali) was sentenced to death on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He is a Swedish-Iranian dual citizen and a university professor.
  6. Anoush Ashouri is sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with a hostile government of the United Kingdomā€.
  7. Hamidinia was sentenced to five years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with a hostile governmentā€. He is a foreign affairs specialist and a former employee of Iranā€™s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  8. Reza Jokari was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He is a physics engineer and an employee of Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant.
  9. Shahab Manzouri was sentenced to six years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United Kingdomā€.
  10. Xiyue Wang was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of espionage for the United States. He is a Chinese American dual citizen.
  11. Mokhtar Salehi was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He is an Iranian Kurd and has a high school diploma.
  12. Sattar Sheykh was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a doctoral degree in art from Tehran University of Art.
  13. Ali Kebritsaz Tavakoli was sentenced to five years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€.
  14. Mohammad Ali Babapour was charged with ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€. His does not have a sentence yet.
  15. Seyed Javad Noorjamali was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He is a computer engineer and a network administrator.
  16. Shahab Damiri was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He was a wrestling captain.
  17. Ali Asgari was sentenced to a seven-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with a hostile governmentā€.
  18. Ali Kashefi was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He is a professor of Sharif University.
  19. Kamran Ghaderi was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Vienna in Austria.
  20. Mohammad Asnaashari was sentenced to a three-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a masterā€™s degree in computer programming.
  21. Mohammad Javad Zarei was sentenced to a 7-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€.
  22. Mehdi Zarei was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€.
  23. Ali Johari was sentenced to a 10-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€.
  24. Kiumars Marzbain was sentenced to 25-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€.
  25. Farid Faridnia, a Kurdish citizen, was sentenced to a seven-year prison term on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€.
  26. Manouchehr Mohammad Ali was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with a hostile governmentā€. He has a doctoral degree in French literature.
  27. Masoud Kiani was sentenced to five years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has doctorate in dentistry from Ukraine.
  28. Mehdi Ahmadi was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€. He has a masterā€™s degree in cyber security from the University of Virginia.
  29. Najaf Hesari, a Kurdish citizen, was sentenced to three years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€.
  30. Ali Azarifar was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a doctoral degree in programming from Australia.
  31. Seyed Mahmoud Mousavi was charged with ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He does not have a sentence yet.
  32. Amir Rahimpour was charged with ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€ and his sentence is still unknown. He has a masterā€™s degree in electrical engineering.
  33. Afshin Salehi was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a bachelorā€™s degree in computer.
  34. Mohammad Amini was sentenced to 28 months imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United States of Americaā€. He has a masterā€™s degree in computer.
  35. Jalil Baroghi was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He has a bachelorā€™s degree in electrical engineering.
  36. Mohammad Omidi was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He was a former employee of Iranā€™s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  37. Masoud Mosaheb was charged with ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€. He does not have a sentence yet.
  38. Mohammad Amin Nasab was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of the United Kingdomā€. He is an Iranian-British dual citizen.
  39. Majid Nikafraz was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of ā€œcollaboration with the hostile government of Israelā€.

This list only contains the national-security related prisoners in this ward. Ā Other political prisoners with charges such as ā€œassembly and collisionā€, ā€œpropaganda against the stateā€, and ā€œmissionaryā€ are also held in this ward.

Border Regiment Shot and Wounded a Kolbar

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Amini, a Kolbar from Alan in Sardasht, was wounded in the leg and taken to the hospital after being shot by the security forces.

According to the report of the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Amini, a Kolbar from Dolemir of Alan in Sardasht, was wounded by the security forcesā€™ direct shot. Continue reading “Border Regiment Shot and Wounded a Kolbar”