Mohammad Nazari

Mohammad Nazari (born in Shahin Dej Village near Western Azerbaijan Province) in a laborer and member of the PDKI. He was sentenced to life in prison

• <coverage-outsourcing id='718'> He was arrested at the age of 23 by members of the Revolutionary Guard's Intelligence Office in his hometown of Bukan. He was initially taken to the Revolutionary Guard's Aboozar Bukan lock-up and transferred to Bukan's Intelligence Ministry's lock-up after four days </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='719'> He was tried on charges of " Collaboration with the PDKU" in Branch 1 of Urmia's Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Jalilzadeh and despite not confessing to his crimes or having an attorney present he was sentenced to execution after a 20 minute trial session </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='720'> Mohammad Nazari was included in the Eid Al Qurban exonerations and his death sentence was reduced to life in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='724'> He began a hunger strike in protest of his conditions and the death of two of his ward mates after serving 20 and 22 years, respectively </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='722'> His case was reviewed by the order of the Prosecutor General. The review found him to be innocent and his release was issued but the Intelligence Ministry disagreed with his release at the last moment </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='725'> He ended his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='723'> He was summoned to Ward 8 of Rajaee Shahr Prison, known as the Revolutionary Guard's Ward, where he was asked to testify that he is not a supporter of the PDKI so that he may be released. He was returned to Political Hall 12 after two hours </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7664'> Roji Kurd reported that despite prison physicians' recommendation that he be transferred to a medical center outside of the prison, intelligence agents are preventing this from happening: > The Democratic Party [of Kurdistan] should treat you . It is likely that he is suffering from issues in the vertebrae of his spine </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7698'> A letter he penned to Mohseni Eje'i, the Judiciary's Spokesperson, was published in HRANA. In this letter the defendant requests that Mr. Eje'i follows the law and releases him. In his letter he asks Mr. Eje'i if he "recommends any other way besides a hunger strike" if the law was not enforced </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19462'> After the collective transfer of the political and ideological/religious prisoners of Rajaei Shahr prison to a new ward, a number of them began a hunger strike.This widespread hunger strike led to the prison guards and staff’s mistreatment of prisoners’ families, threatening of prisoners, putting prisoners in solitary confinement and withholding medical treatment and medicines. The collective protest was met with the media reaction of the judiciary, and the support of human rights organizations and some of the civil and political activists. Because some of the prisoner terminated their strike sooner and some of them were, also, transferred to solitary cells, the list of names changed during the period of the hunger strike, but in general, the names of prisoners who partook in the hunger strike, whose names have been confirmed by verified lists, are as follows: Majid Asadi, Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Shirzad, Saeed Masouri, Shahin Zoghitabar, Reza Akbari Monfared, Abolghasem Fouladvand, Hasan Sadeghi, Reza Shahabi, Mohammad Nazari, Payam Shakiba, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, Mohammal Ali Mansouri, Ebrahim Firouzi, Amir Ghaziani, Vahid Sayad Nasiri, Hamid Babaei, Zanyar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, Houshang Rezaei and Saeed Pourheydar. Among them Saeed Shirzad, Reza Shahabi, and Mohammad Nazari’s hunger strike lasted longer than 50 days.The last two, had continued their hunger strike in protest to the situation of their own cases </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19441'> The Boroumand Foundation reported that he was transferred to the hospital. According to this report, on the previous day, one of the Intelligence ministry interrogators, told him that if he can introduce a family guarantor he can be released, but his family members have passed away. The interrogator told Mohammad Nazari that, “you will die and for a couple of days the websites and the media will discuss you and then it will be over, so it is better to break your hunger strike” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19531'> Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan published a statement enumerating the incidents of the abuse of the human rights of Mohammad Nazari, asking individuals & organizations to “become the justice seeking voice of the political prisoner Mohammad Nazari” and to apply pressure on the Islamic Republic for his release. This statement, also, beseeches Mohammad Nazari to end his hunger strike, because “no human being’s life has value for the Islamic Republic and they pay no attention to any one’s needs” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19550'> The Boroumand Foundation reported that despite having received two rounds of IV his vascular muscles have deteriorated and he is danger of cardiac arrest. According to this report the prison authorities have prevented him from meeting a lawyer, who had been chosen by a number of his fellow prisoner, in order to procure his services and the power of attorney. Boroumand Foundation, quoting Mohammad Nazari, wrote, “I will embark on the road to Bukan, either upon my freedom or my death” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19603'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, Saeed Shirzad and Zanyar Moradi, wrote a letter from Rajaei Shahr in Karaj prison, asking for the support and solidarity of political and civil activists of Kurdistan for Mohammad Nazari </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19768'> He ended his foods fast </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26178'> Mohammad Nazari wrote a letter to declare that the Mahabad Court had agreed with his amnesty and release but the Amnesty and Clemency Commission of the Judiciary had deemed him as not qualified for amnesty. He said: “Those who know my family say this is because we are Shia and part of a martyrs’ family. For those in government, if a Shia backs a political party that is Sunni and Kurdish, he has committed an unforgivable crime that needs to be severely punished.” The letter has been submitted to the evidence section of this website </coverage-outsourcing>