Abdolreza Davari
He is known to be a Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporter. He has had numerous responsibilities and governmental posts including, deputy director of IRNA, Managing director of Retirement Savings of the National Copper Company. He has been arrested several times. There are questions regarding the veracity of his higher education claims and diplomas
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15857'> Keyhan reported that he had been arrested for “Falsifying the authorities’ words and publishing falsehoods.” A day before, official news outlets published the news of the issuance of his arrest warrant. One unconfirmed report, claimed that he was later cleared of the charges that led to this arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15860'> After comments were written on his Facebook page against Ali Akbar Nategh Nouri and his family, and the latter filed a complaint against him, he was condemned to three years prison at branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, headed by judge Salavati. News outlets reported, in September 2015, his request from for an exculpation for an exculpation from Nategh Nouri, which was accepted and led to annulment of his verdict. Mr. Davari claims that his facebook page has been hacked and the published offensive and injurious comments did not come from him </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15858'> According to a report from the Telegram account, on this day he was condemned to six years incarceration, by judge Salavati at branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, for crimes of “insulting the leader” genre. Since the crime of “insulting the leader” is not enough to issue a verdict, there are most probably other infractions filed that have not been mentioned in the posted statement. This sentence was reduced to three years imprisonment by judge Zargari at branch 36 of the Court of Appeals of Tehran. At the bottom of this verdict, this verdict was imposed on him “based on the excuse of three facebook comments, written by strangers” </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15859'> Abdolreza Davari’s Telegram account announced his arrest for serving his sentence. “Fars” published a report claiming that a two year prison sentence has been issued. It is likely that several accusations have been filed in the case, and Article 134 was applied </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15861'> Abdolreza Davari’s Telegram account published a message announcing that he has begun a hunger strike. “ Your holiness, Ayatollah Ameli Larijani, due to the cruel verdict that you have issued against me, based on three facebook comments posted by others against me, I request another hearing. I have begun a dry food hunger strike, which I will continue until the formal issuance of an appeal hearing” </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15933'> Abdolreza Davari’s Telegram page, quoting his wife Elham Salmani, wrote, the verdict was implemented because of the rejection of the suggestion “of an individual who claimed to head a security agency” meaning to “join our collaboration against Dr. Ahmadinejad” </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='15934'> Writing to the head of the judiciary, Elham Salmani asked him to accept the appeal request. She wrote: “My husband is being held in Evin prison while, at the same time, your prosecutors have also seized the papers for his real estate properties as bail.” The letter was published by Abdolreza Davari’s Telegram channel </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='16146'> Mr Davari’s Telegram channel published images of his office after his arrest. The office features many pictures of Mahmood Ahmadinejad on his computer, photo frame, etc. </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='16147'> Abdolreza Davari, wrote in his telegram account, quoting him, that today in the library in ward 4 of Evin prison, he saw Reza G (probably Reza Golpour) the author of the controversial book, Sh. A (probably Shavand Eshbah). Based on this account, Mr. Golpour has spent six months in ward 2A of Evin for the crimes of “spying for Israel, armed action against national security, and insulting the leadership,” and is now awaiting a court hearing headed by judge Salavati, in July, 2017 </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='16396'> According to Abdolreza Davari’s Telegram channel, tomorrow he will have the opportunity to meet his family for the first time </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='18252'> Abdolreza Davari’s Telegram channel addressed Mohammadreza Bahonar. It affirmed the unconstituionality of punishment meted out without fair trial and added “if, according to Mr Bahonar, the Three Detained [referring to the Green Movement leaders-AA] will get a heavier sentence than detention in a trial and he prefers the “actually existing detention” to the “promsie of capital punishment”, my suggestion is to solve the legal problem of such expedient preferences by holding open trials for the Three Detained. If capital punishment was meted out by the judge, the Three Detained can be amnestied and their detention can be excused by reference to to the procedual code” </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='27569'> Ensaf News confirmed his arrest. His wife, Elham Salmani, told Bayan News Agency that his arrest was without a warrant. Numerous outlets have claimed that he was arrested on the charge of “connections with Amad News” </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='27750'> According to Fars, the Judiciary’s spokesperson said the following on Abdolreza Davari: “We confirm that Abdolreza Davari has been arrested but he has many charges and there is a question of his connections with the Amad News network. Investigations are being done on the case” </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='29862'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-24283/'> He was released on bail </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>