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Arian Rostami Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

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Arian Rostami, IRGC Intelligence, Nariman Shafiei, Qasr-e Shirin

HRANA – Arian Rostami, a resident of Sarpol-e Zahab, has been sentenced by Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Qasr-e Shirin to five years in prison.

According to Kurdpa, the verdict was issued by Branch One of the Revolutionary Court of Qasr-e Shirin, presided over by Judge Nariman Shafiei, and was officially communicated to Mr. Rostami on September 6. Under the ruling, he has been sentenced to five years in prison on the charge of “membership in a group with the intention of disrupting national security.”

According to a source cited in the report, “The court relied on a report from the IRGC Intelligence of Qasr-e Shirin in issuing the sentence against this citizen.”

Arian Rostami is a resident of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshah Province.

Arrest of Nine Citizens by Security Forces in Various Cities

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Abdollah Bakhah, Abdul Rasouli, Ahsan Othmani, Askar Najafi, Divandarreh, Hamzeh Othmani, Hassan Falaeian, Kamyar Oghabi, Marivan, Omid Bakhah, Oshnavieh, Piranshahr, Qasr-e Shirin, Ramyar Rezaei

HRANA News Agency – Over the past several days, nine citizens—Kamyar (Kamal) Oghabi, Ahsan Othmani, Hamzeh Othmani, Ramyar Rezaei, Omid Bakhah, Abdollah Bakhah, Askar Najafi, Hassan Falaeian, and Abdul Rasouli—have been arrested by security forces in the cities of Oshnavieh, Marivan, Qasr-e Shirin, Divandarreh, and Piranshahr, and transferred to undisclosed locations.

According to a report by Kordpa, on Sunday, June 29, Kamyar Oghabi was arrested at his home in the village of Balagir, a district of Oshnavieh, without a judicial warrant. Security agents reportedly used violence during the arrest and took him to an unknown location. Oghabi, 33, is a married environmental activist with a prior record of arrest and conviction.

Kordpa also reported that in recent days, Askar Najafi, a resident of Sarpol-e Zahab, was detained by security forces at his workplace in the Qasr-e Shirin market and taken to an undisclosed location. No warrant was presented at the time of his arrest.

Additionally, according to KolbarNews, five residents of the village of Dareh-Nakhi, a district of Marivan, were arrested by security forces on Sunday and taken to unknown locations. The individuals were identified as Ahsan Othmani (22), Hamzeh Othmani (24), Ramyar Rezaei (25), Omid Bakhah (30), and Abdollah Bakhah (35). The arrests were reportedly carried out without judicial warrants, and the individuals’ homes were searched.

Separately, KolbarNews reported that Hassan Falaeian—also known as “Hawar Rojhelatî”—a poet and cultural activist from Piranshahr, was arrested on Sunday, June 21, and transferred to an undisclosed location. He remains in custody.

Furthermore, on Wednesday, June 18, security forces arrested a citizen in Divandarreh. KolbarNews identified the individual as Abdul Rasouli, 37, from the village of Tazabad Doleh Rash, a district of Divandarreh.

At the time of this report, the reasons for the arrests, the charges, and the whereabouts of the detainees remain unknown.

A Daily Overview of Human Rights Violations in Iran for January 15, 2019

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Abbas Lesani, Alireza Bampouri, Amir Hossein Mohammadifar, Azar Heydari, Falavarjan, Habib Ahmadi, Karchan, landmine, Mohammad Najafi, Mostafa Turk Hamedani, Public execution, Qasr-e Shirin, Rashid Ahourani, Saba Kord-Afshar, Saeed Mortazavi, Salmas, Sanaz Allahyari, Yasaman Aryani, Yazd, Zabihollah Rigi, Zahedan Prison, Zobeir Hout

The following is an overview of human rights violations in Iran on January 15th, 2019 based on the information compiled and verified by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

(1) Abbas Lesani, Azerbaijani Turkic minority rights activist, was arrested after his court session. He was tried in absentia and sentenced to 10 months imprisonment on the charge of ‘propaganda against the state’.

(2) A car transporting student crashed leaving four students injured in Qaleh Ganj in the Kerman province.

(3) A report of mistreatment in Zahedan prison: Zobeir Hout, a prisoner with severe skin disease, was denied medical care. Alireza Bampouri, Zabihollah Rigi, and Rashid Ahourani have been beaten and transferred to quarantine, punitively.

(4) Mohammad Najafi court was in session today. He is a lawyer and human rights activist who is serving his three years sentence in prison and faced 74 lashes and 14 more years imprisonment for his new charges of ‘spreading lies and disturbing public opinion’.

(5) The attorney for the plaintiffs in the Social Security Organization case, Mostafa Turk Hamedani, was sentenced to 40 lashes and 6-months imprisonment for the complaint filed by Saeed Mortazavi, the former general prosecutor of Tehran.

(6) Two workers died and eight have been injured in their workplaces in the cities of Karchan and Yazd, because of negligence in the oversight of safety conditions.

(7) An accused individual in the city of Salmas received an alternative sentencing to prepare banner and brochures about ‘crime prevention’. Otherwise, he would be sentenced to support two recovering addicts and meet their basic needs.

(8) Saba Kord-Afshar, Yasaman Aryani, and Azar Heydari wrote an open letter from Evin prison about people’s financial and political situation. They were arrested in August 2018 while taking part in a public protest in Tehran.

(9) Amir Hossein Mohammadifar and Sanaz Allahyari who were arrested by the security forces on January 9, have been transferred to Evin Prison, section 209. They were working as editors of “Gam” journal.

(10) More than five protests were organized all over the country: several teachers in Yazd, firefighters in Abadan, workers of inter-city rail in Ahvaz, Nishabur municipality workers, and the shareholders of financial institution of Caspian.

(11) Habib Ahmadi, a labor activist, was released on bail after 40 days detention. He was charged with ‘cooperation with a Kurdish opposition group’.

(12) A prisoner was publicly executed in Falavarjan county in Isfahan province. He was accused of murdering a 5-year old girl, Melika. In 2018, at least 236 people have been executed and 195 people have been sentenced to death in Iran.

(13) A landmine explosion injured two army soldiers in Qasr-e Shirin city in the Kermanshah province. More than 42 thousand square kilometers of the lands in the Iran ‘s western provinces contain landmines left from the Iran-Iraq war.