Navid Mihan Doust

Navid Mihandoost is a TV and film director. “Glass Ceiling,” “It could happen to you too” and “whatever god wants” are some of his films.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='28370'> <reference source='https://t.me/hranews/41247'> Was arrested. He was transferred to Evin prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28908'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/features/35726'> After a few weeks, officers went to his workplace to search his home and confiscated some of his personal items, including CDs and laptops. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28373'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-23371/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> After 40 days, he is still being held in Section 2009. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='29029'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/news/tehran/36234'> He was released on bail. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34190'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-28309/'> HRANA reported that Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Mohammad Reza Amouzad, sentenced Mr. Mihendoust to three years and six months in prison for two charges, including "propaganda against the system" through "wall-writing." The title of the first charge, for which three years of imprisonment was issued, was reported by HRANA as "Action against national security through membership and cooperation with groups opposed to the system"; Considering that his legal charge is not clear in this report, Atlas assumed that he was sentenced to prison for the charge of "Assembly and collusion to act against national security" under Article 610 of the Criminal Code. By applying Article 134, three years of his sentence will be applicable. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34294'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/AlinejadMasih/status/1350039651063648258'> On her Twitter page, Masih Alinejad shared a part of a feature film made by Navid Mihandoost about his life and media activity and wrote: > After a decade, Navid Mihandoost was sentenced to three years and six months in prison for the crime of making this film and having a family relationship with my brother Ali. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34910'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/8NPRyq3cE0nUUZz/status/1365338826265288707?s=20'> Navid Mihan Doust's defense lawyer, Mohammad Hadi Erfanian Kaseb, wrote on his Twitter page that Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeal confirmed the sentence of three and six months in prison for his client. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53948'> <reference source='http://tinyurl.com/4uynhpdy'> 180 Iranian cinema and theater writers and directors signed a letter demanding the overturn of Navid Mihan Doust's prison sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53947'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-43014/'> According to Harana, he went to Evin prison to serve his sentence. Navid Mihan Doust said in a video that he gave to his family before going to prison: > My lawyers and I tried our best to make the Revolutionary Court understand that when you don't differentiate between cultural and security issues, it leads to such verdicts." Mihan Doust emphasized that "except for the Taj-e-Khar documentary" in case of other charges, "no film has been made at all, neither about those killed in 2019, nor about the girls of Enghelab street. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53949'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-929/'> By writing a letter, Navid (Reza) Mihan Doust, while mentioning the death of a prisoner in Evin prison, addressed the problems that lead to the death of prisoners and listed the poor health condition of the prison, the lack of medical facilities and the carelessness of the authorities as factors that put the lives of prisoners in danger. In this letter published by HRANA, Mr. Mihan Doust wrote that this 60-year-old deceased prisoner was imprisoned due to a "major accounting dispute with a government official" and died in prison due to "complications of stomach bleeding". Addressing what he called the "corrupt and inefficient healthcare system" of Evin prison, Navid Mihan Doust wrote that there was a "difference of opinion" for sending the deceased to the hospital, and although the victim wanted to be transferred to a private hospital, "the order for his transfer arrived 15 minutes after his death". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53950'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-44155/'> According to HRANA, following the publication of Navid Mihan Doust's letter regarding the cause of death of Faramarz Javidzadeh, a Jewish citizen imprisoned in Evin prison, he was denied the right to make phone calls. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53951'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-931/'> Navid Mihan Doust, by publishing a letter, the full text of which was published in HRANA, protested against the discrimination between financial and political prisoners in Evin prison. In his open letter, without mentioning the name of a specific person, he wrote: "Here, you can be a financial criminal, and have your photo of riding a motorcycle and pulling a gun on defenseless people having gone viral, and have a long-term conviction, but you can leave Evin every day in a suit and return there at night to sleep and rest, and laugh at the crowd of political prisoners who are deprived of a short leave or transfer to the hospital for treatment. In another part of his letter, he mentioned one of the ministers of the government of Ahmadinejad, the sixth president of Iran, and wrote: > He was sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, but he was released from prison in less than five years, while people with the same amount of sentence endure the suffering of staying in it until the last day because of their political thoughts and actions. In this letter, Mihan Doust added that in Evin prison, "small and gross oppressions" are applied to the convicts, including the termination of the prisoners' limited phone calls "easily with any childish excuse . </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53952'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-44589/'> HRANA quoted a source as saying that Navid Mihan Doust was transferred to one of the solitary cells of Ward 240 of Evin Prison as a punishment. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53953'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-44604/'> He was returned from solitary confinement to the general ward of this prison. While announcing this news, HRANA wrote that after Mr. Mihan Doust was transferred to the general ward of the prison, the possibility of making phone calls, which was recently denied to him, has been restored to this prisoner. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='59240'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-48067/'> HRANA wrote that Navid Mihan Doust, who is serving a three-year sentence in Evin prison, recently faced restrictions, including access to the library in the prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='62403'> <reference source='https://ir.voanews.com/a/navid-mihandoust-activist-prisoner/7730714.html'> Neda Mihan Doust, Navid Mihan Doust's sister, in an interview with Voice of America, reviewing how her brother was arrested and imprisoned, pointed to the release of a film about him in Brazil and said that he should have been free to have more achievements and make his country proud, but he is imprisoned. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='62944'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/ycy6nckr'> Neda Mihan Doust, Navid Mihan Doust's sister, in an interview with Iranwire, says that her brother was under pressure from the Ministry of Intelligence to cooperate with this security agency about Masih Alinejad from the time he was released from prison on bail until he went to Evin prison to serve his sentence. According to this report, Judge Mohammad Reza Amouzad stated in the hearing: > One of my wishes is that one day Masih Alinejad will come and sit here in front of me. Navid Mihan Doust told his sister before going to prison that they could not get their hands on Masih Alinejad, so they wanted to take revenge on me. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='63712'> <reference source='https://t.me/emtedadnet/92281'> Masoud Keramati, director and movie actor, announced in an interview that although Navid Mihan Doust has served a third of his prison sentence, his parole was opposed. According to this report, his request to be released with an electronic monitoring device was also rejected. Referring to the need to release this director from prison, Masoud Keramati added: > All I can say about Navid's case is that he was sentenced to three years in prison with a series of weak and baseless accusations based on arguments that could not really be cited. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='63846'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-50780/'> He was sent on leave. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='64055'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-50939/'> According to HRANA, after the end of his leave and after the authorities did not agree to extend his leave and his request for conditional release, he returned to prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>