Asoo Rostami

A teacher, poet, author, civil and children's rights activist arrested during a gathering in support of the city Kobani

<coverage-outsourcing id='767'> Arrested by security forces and transferred to Ward 2-A of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7823'> Asoo Rostami, Ali Noori, and Omid Alishenas were moved from ward 2-A to ward 8 of Evin Prison. Also Atena Daemi was moved from ward 2-A to women's ward </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7825'> After the prisoners' protest to mandatory yard time in cold winter weather and lack of warm clothing for the prisoners in ward 8 of Evin Prison, Asoo Rostami, Amir Amir Gholi, and Amir Houshang Navayi were moved to solitary confinements in ward 240 and went on hunger strike. Omid Alishenas, Saeed Shirzad, and Masood Arab Choobdar also went on hunger strike in their support. Shortly after, these three were also moved to solitary confinements in ward 240 along with Hamid Babayi and Abbas Rostami </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7833'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/Atena_Daemi_Court.pdf'> Judge Mohammad Moghiseh issued the sentences for Omid Alishenas, Atena Daemi, Nasou Rostami, Ali Nouri and Mohammad Hossein Daemi. Omid Alishenas was sentenced to 7 years in prison under article 610 Islamic Penal Code for “Assembly and collusion against national security and propaganda against the system”, 3 years of prison under article 514 Islamic Penal Code for “insulting the Supreme Leader” and a 1.2 million Tooman fine for “keeping vulgar CD’s and using satellite tv services.” Atena Daemi was sentenced to 7 years in prison under article 610 Islamic Penal Code for “Assembly and collusion against national security, and propaganda against the system”, 3 years in prison under article 514 Islamic Penal Code for “insulting the Supreme Leader”, 4 years in prison under article 554 Islamic Penal Code for “hiding crime evidence” (she changed the passwords of Ali Nouri’s email and Facebook after his arrest). Nasou Rostami and Ali Nouri were sentenced each to a total of 7 years in prison (5 years under article 610 and 2 years under article 514 of the Islamic Penal Code). Atena Daemi’s father, Mohammad Hossein Daemi was fined 300 thousand Toomans for “using satellite tv services.” In the verdict issued by the court, all activities to defend human rights, defend political prisoners and their families or any political activism against the system was considered to be a crime, also titles like Legal experts who work with the Iran Prisons Atlas consider this verdict not be legally credible because, in addition to regular problems in revolutionary court’s verdict like mentioning only the title of crimes instead of defendant’s conduct regarding that crime and despite the number of accusations (no more than 3), defendants were sentenced for more than the maximum penalty required by law. For instance, defendants were sentenced to 7 years in prison for article 610 Islamic Penal Code and 3 years for article 514 Islamic Penal Code despite the fact that the maximum sentence by law for article 610 and article 514 are 5 and 2 years, respectively </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7836'> In a joint statement, The Human Rights Activists in Iran and Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan objected to the sentences of Atena Daemi, Atena Farghdani, Omid Alishenas, Saeed Hosseinzadeh, Asoo Rostami, and Ali Nouri, noting that they had spent several months in solitary confinement under mental torture, the judicial proceedings were not transparent enough, and according to this interpretation of the criminal acts by the Revolutionary Courts, any sort of political, social, and civil activism can be considered a crime </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7840'> According to Harana, despite Asoo Rostami's lung infection and bleeding, the prison doctor only examined him after two weeks and has refused to send him to a hospital. After that there were also reports of negligence in his treatment in cases like brain hemorrhage </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7843'> Amnesty International requested the immediate and unconditional freedom of Omid Alishenas and Asoo Rostami </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7847'> According to Harana, insult and battery of Asoo Rostami by the shift officer, led to the protest of the prisoners of Evin Prison's ward 8. The issue came to a close after the assembly of prisoners in the ward's mosque, with the mediation of ward's representative and apology of the mentioned officer </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7850'> According to Harana, Atena Daemi's family was notified by branch 36 of the appeal court that three judges are required for an appeal court session to be held, but there are only two judges present at the time so she will not receive a sentence yet </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7855'> Atena Daemi and Asoo Rostami were released on bail </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7856'> Three agents in civilian clothing visited Asoo Rostami's workplace, a non-profit educational institute, and threatened the manager and cancelled his classes without providing a warrant. According to Harana, he was teaching "Translation and Editing of Political Texts and documents" and its profit went to children of labor </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7859'> According to Harana, due to the absence of two out of the three judges and also one of the defendants (Ali Nouri), the appeal court was postponed </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7862'> Appeal court session was held. Among the defendants, Asoo Rostami appeared in court for a few minutes to offer his excuse for not attending the session </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9393'> The appeal court verdict was issued. The verdict sentences Atena Daemi and Omid Ali Shenas to seven years (five years for "Assembly and conspiracy against national security" and two years for "insulting the supreme leader") and Asoo Rostami and Ali Noori to two years in prison. IPA, with the assumption of the application of Article 134, has registered five years in prison for Aten Daemi and Omid Alishenas, in the statistical section </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10927'> “The Political Prisoners Alliance for Regime Change” website, published a letter that, it claimed, was written by Asoo Rostami, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, Ebrahim Firouzi and Khaled Herani. These four individuals in their statement, praised the “courageous resistance of the valorous people of Syria and Halab” and announced that “we will fight the repression and meddling by the Iranian regime, we will also counter their efforts and have no qualms in giving our freedom in the defense of the innocent people of Syria” </coverage-outsourcing>