Naser Khafajian

He was arrested along with two others on the charge of "participating in an armed attack on 23rd Mojahed Alley of Ahvaz Police Station”. The court sentenced him to death.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='30353'> Armed men attack police station at 23rd Mojahed Alley of Ahvaz Police Station, killing two police officers and injuring one </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30356'> The Ahwaz IRGC stated that it had arrested the parties in an armed conflict. Three suspects were killed and injured, and the rest (Ali Khosraji, Hossein Silavi, and Nasser Khafaji) were arrested by IRGC forces </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30359'> "These three detainees were severely tortured during interrogation, and some parts of their bodies, including their chest and hands, were injured," a source familiar with the situation told IPA. They were transferred to Sheyban Prison after interrogation </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30362'> <reference source='https://www.aparat.com/v/jmwbs/%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%84%D9%87_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%AA%DB%8C_%D8%A8%D9%87_%DA%A9%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B2'> Forced confessions of several defendants of the case were published in government-affiliated media. "We were ordered by the Saudi sheiks," Hossein Silavi said. "The aim was to show Iran's intelligence service’s weakness to people," said Ali Khosraji. The confession of a person named "Nasser S" (probably Nasser Khafaji) is also set in this video. Regardless of how the security system handles compulsory confessions, IPA does not endorse the content of this video </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30365'> According to IPA, The Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of Ali Khosraji, Hossein Silavi, and Nasser Khafaji. The verdicts were issued by the Ahwaz Revolutionary Court and Khuzestan Court of Appeals, respectively. Esmaili, a spokesman of the judiciary, said some other defendants had been sentenced to 10 and 15 years in prison, and one defendant had been sentenced to five years in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30369'> <reference source='https://www.radiofarda.com/a/30538901.html'> According to Radio Farda, 80 Political or prisoners' of conscience have been transferred to an unknown place after the riots in Sheyban Prison. According to the report, some of them have been "tortured or beaten." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34784'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%ae%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%ac%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%b3%d9%be%db%8c%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa/'> As protests related to the spread of the Covid-19 virus and lack of medical care continue to occur in prisons across the country, the Sheyban Prison finds itself in a securitized atmosphere. On Tuesday, March 31, 2020, a few hours before the prisoners’ riot in Sheyban, the prison authorities took Naser Khafajian, Hossein Silavi and Ali Khasraji out of prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30368'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.com/501676'> There is no information available from Hossein Silavi, Ali Khosraji, and Nasser Khafajian, who were transferred to an unknown place on March 31 along with seven other prisoners named Jaber Alboshuke, Mokhtar Alboshuke, Ali Majdam, Moein Khanfari, Jamil Heydari, Jassem Heydari, and Abdol Razzaq Abaidavi. Seven other detainees have been transferred to solitary confinement in Sheyban Prison and they are not allowed to contact their families </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30557'> <reference source='https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1323092020ENGLISH.PDF'> According to Amnesty, three Arab political prisoners named Hossein Silavi, Ali Khosraji, and Naser Khafajian (Khafaji), and a Kurdish prisoner named Hedayat Abdollahpour, have been transferred to an unknown place. This organization has pointed out the unfair trial of these people and expressed concern about the possibility of secret execution </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34785'> <reference source='https://www.radiozamaneh.com/572271'> According to Radio Zamane, Iran’s permanent representative to the United Nations in Geneva wrote to the UN’s Human Rights Office to claim that no death sentence has been issued for Naser Khafajian, Hossein Silavi and Ali Khasraji and their case is still ongoing. Further IPA’s research shows this claim to be untrue. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34603'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%b5%d8%b1-%d8%ae%d9%81%d8%a7%d8%ac%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%af%d8%b1-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%b3%d9%be%db%8c%d8%af%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa/'> According to IPA sources, Naser Khafajian is being held in Ahvaz’s Sepidar Prison, in a section dedicated to members of the armed forces. Prior to this, Khafajian was detained at Ahvaz’s Sheyban Prison. However, authorities had removed him from Sheyban Prison but did not disclose his new location. Khafajian’s family has been kept in the dark about his condition and whereabouts. IPA researchers cannot confirm when Khafajian was taken to Sepidar Prison or whether he was detained in a third location prior to his transfer. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34931'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%da%86%d9%87%d8%a7%d8%b1-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8/'> Hossein Silavi, Naser Khafajian, Jasem Heydari and Ali Khasraji were executed in Ahvaz’s Sepidar Prison. According to a source speaking to the IPA, these four prisoners had told their families in their last meeting that they were being transferred to Ahvaz’s Sepidar Prison for the death sentence to be carried out but the authorities present in the meeting had claimed that they’d never be executed and will soon be sent back to Sheyban prison. The four were executed a short time after the meeting. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>