Kamran Ghaderi
He is an IT expert and manages Avanoc company in Vienna. Kamran Ghaderi was arrested and sentenced to prison in one of the cases referred to by the media close to the security organizations as "Infiltration Project"
- <coverage-outsourcing id='10147'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/38cxw87t'> According to Radio Farda and International Campaign for Human Rights, he was arrested in the early January of 2016 </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='10148'> Security forces announced that Kamran Ghaderi's wife and children are allowed to visit him, but when his wife arrived in Iran, she was interrogated for three and a half hours, and was not allowed visitation. Mrs. Harika Ghaderi then left the country. Later it was reported that the visitation was a scenario to lure Harika to Iran and put more pressure on Mr. Ghaderi in order to get a confession by threatening to arrest his wife </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='10150'> According to Fars, Abbas jafari Dolat Abadi, Attorney General of Tehran, while noting that there are important security, economic, and financial cases open at Tehran court whose details cannot be disclosed due to some considerations, announced that Bagher and Siamak Namazi, Farhad AbdeSaleh, Kamran Ghaderi, Nezar Zaka, and Ali Reza Omidvar have each been sentenced to ten years in prison on the charges of "Espionage and cooperation with American government" </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='10157'> Nasim Online claimed that Bagher and Siamak Namazi, Farhad Abdesaleh, Kamran Ghaderi, Nezar Zaka, and Ali Reza Omidvar have received over 4 million and 800 thousand dollars from enemy governments for executing their projects, and by judicial verdict they are obligated to surrender this amount. Meanwhile, in 2015 the supreme court had issued a verdict regarding Omid Kokabi's case which stated that currently there are no countries in conflict with Iran, and conflict does not mean political disagreements with other countries, and that the court has misinterpreted the term </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='10163'> The spokesperson for the Islamic Republic's Foreign Ministry said: > Any attempts made to connect Iran's domestic affairs like the independent judicial verdicts of Iranian courts against criminals and foreign spies, with the international business and investments in Iran is a futile and unprovoked effort to impact the international community's cooperation with the Islamic Republic. </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='10149'> His wife, Harika Ghaderi, told Radio Farda that their attorney had advised them against publicizing her husband's situation. Since April 2016 he has been allowed visitation from his mother every two weeks. Kamran Ghaderi is a businessman and has had no dealings with the governments of America or Austria, and the Austrian individuals that accompanied him on his trip to Iran were his fellow businessmen. Mrs. Ghaderi also stated that she is not familiar with other individuals that were convicted at the same time as Kamran Ghaderi, and has only read their names on the Internet </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='11701'> According to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, since his arrest he has been kept in solitary confinement in ward 209. He had his first visit with his mother several months after his arrest, he has been denied visits from his wife and children, and the only evidence against him is a confession that he signed to prevent the arrest of his wife. According to this report, when ""Mr. Ghaderi was allowed to see his mother for the first time, he told her "I had to sign some papers so that they would let Harika go free", and he asked about Harika. But his mother told him that Harika is fine and she was never arrested in the first place." The report once again cites the document in Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Office of International Law, number 92/9/23-968655, which states that Iran is not in a state of conflict with any other country </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='14500'> Harika Ghaderi told Radio Farda that in the last 15 months, she managed to talk to her husband on the phone once in the second month and once in the seventh month. According to her statements, the doctors suggested surgery to Kamran Ghaderi, but due to the two-month recovery period and his imprisonment in ward 209, Mr. Ghaderi has not yet agreed to the operation. Mrs. Ghaderi also says that Kamran Ghaderi was "under torture" and forced to sign confessions about cooperation with Austria and America while they were putting pressure on his family members. </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='16131'> He was probably moved to another ward in Evin Prison at this date. </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='16130'> In a report published by IranWire based on an interview with Harika Ghaderi, Kamran Ghaderi has been meeting his family members in Iran once a week since his transfer from Ward 209, and he can talk to his wife and children in Austria on the phone every week. According to the lawyer, during the first four months, Mrs. Ghaderi did not even inform the Austrian government that her husband was arrested. The security agents bought a ticket for Kamran Ghaderi and told him that he would be released quickly and leave Iran if he signed the document they wanted and confessed to cooperating with foreign countries, but after signing the aforementioned text, he was kept in prison. Harika Ghaderi's research showed that the ticket was actually issued, and the lawyer cited this in the documents sent to the Supreme Court. According to this report quoting Kamran Ghaderi's family, Mr. Ghaderi has sold "a large part of Iran's banking security systems" to this country. </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='20353'> His wife, Harika Ghaderi, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran that her husband needed surgery and subsequent medical leave, but despite a month's notice, she still did not receive a response from the prosecutor's office. Because of his inability to move, he as failed to meet with his family in the past weeks , and that the Supreme Court has still not responded to the request for a retrial (the verdict was confirmed by Tehran's appeal court) </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='20389'> According to Hrana, he is incarcerated in ward 7 </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='26729'> Amnesty International condemned the continuation of his detention in a statement and further wrote: > The health condition of this prisoner is alarming and he needs continuous medical care. </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='32196'> <reference source='https://www.kampain.info/archive/48479.htm'> In a statement, Amnesty International requested Kamran Ghaderi's access to medical services and immediate medical treatment: > He needs immediate treatment and ongoing care to treat his leg tumor. In a part of this statement, this organization also mentioned the unfair trial, obtaining confessions by torture, and Kamran Ghaderi's lack of access to a lawyer during the first seven months of his detention. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='33884'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/38rTdZ3'> Journalist and human rights activist Darren Nair, quoting Kamran Ghaderi's wife, announced that Mr. Ghaderi has symptoms of coronavirus and asked the Austrian government to take immediate measures to protect the life of this political prisoner. He has also requested leave or parole for her husband to receive the necessary medical treatments. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='33960'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-28022/'> According to HRANA, Kamran Ghaderi and Masoud Mosaheb have contracted coronavirus. It was reported that Mr. Mosaheb is to be quarantined for 14 days at Evin Prison’s infirmary. Herika Ghaderi, wife of Kamran Ghaderi has also asked for medical treatment for her husband. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='35558'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/2OIGTxO'> Radio Zamaneh wrote that the families of Kamran Ghaderi and Masoud Mosaheb wrote to Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg, stressing that the "diplomacy of silence" does not work, and asked him to make more efforts for the release of their relatives. The families of these prisoners have written to the Austrian government: > You don't publicly ask for their release and you don't talk about the injustice, torture, and illegality of their imprisonment. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='41839'> <reference source='https://ir.voanews.com/a/families-accuse-eu-ignoring-europeans-imprisoned-in-iran/6733393.html'> Families of four European citizens incarcerated in Iran sent a letter to Josep Borrell of the European Union, accusing European countries of ignoring and neglecting their citizens in Iran. Benjamin Briere's sister in France, Kamran Ghaderi's wife in Austria, Ahmadreza Jalali's wife in Sweden, and Jamshid Sharmahd's daughter in Germany wrote the letter expressing their anger at the European Union for ignoring the plight of their loved ones. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
- <coverage-outsourcing id='51773'> <reference source='http://bit.ly/3qiSWnV'> Kamran Ghaderi and Masoud Mosaheb were released from prison. According to IranWire, these two Iranian-Austrian citizens have been released as part of the prisoner exchange plan between Iran and European countries, which was carried out by Belgium after the release of Asadollah Asadi, the diplomat of the Islamic Republic of Iran. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>