Reza Aghakhani

Reza Aghakhani

He is one of the Nationalist-Religious activists

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19823'> In the eighties he was incarcerated, for around four and a half years for political reasons </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19817'> Reza Aghakhani, Nasrollah Lashani, Ali Reza Akbarzadeh and Hossein Bahiraei were arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19818'> Was released after posting bail </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19819'> Judge Salavati sentenced him to three years in prison and a fine of 300 thousand tomans on charges "Membership in the Nationalist-Religious group" and "Membership in the Friends of the Rainbow Coalition" </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19820'> Branch 36 of the Appeal Court of Tehran with judge Zargar presiding, confirmed the ruling of the initial court hearing </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19821'> Kalame reported that branch 54 of the Appeals Court confirmed his sentence. Prior to this, branch 34 of the Supreme Court of Iran, had rejected his charge of “acting against national security” and had accepted his appeal </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19822'> He appeared at Evin prison to begin his sentence. An informed source told the Human Rights Campaign in Iran, “Mr. Aghakhani believed that the verdict was illegal but he was afraid of a repeat of his previous arrest, in the previous arrest in 2013, early in the morning, eight officers had rushed into his home, and his son who suffered from brain injury at the age of three, was so severely shocked that his kidney stopped functioning and for a total of seven months, day and night, the entire family was in the midst of his medical care. This experience, not wanting his home to be raided again, made Mr. Aghakhani, turn himself in on November 4th” </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='20810'> Melli Mazhabi website reported that the Branch 38 of the Supreme Court has rejected Reza Aghakhani's request for reinstatement of his case </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='26373'> He was released from prison </coverage-outsourcing>