Salman Chayan

He is one of the Arab citizens who was sentenced to prison for the charge of “warring against God”. Press TV, the English language station of the regime in Iran, also, broadcast a film of his confessions. According to reports, he and others charged in the case were severely tortured

<coverage-outsourcing id='2929'> In June or July, the Ministry of Intelligence informed the families of the arrested that they can meet their children in a mosque in the village of Jarieh. When the families entered the mosque they realized they were being filmed. They were told that if they agree to being filmed when their children are giving television confessions, their children’s punishment will be reduced. The families were unaware that their film would be broadcast from the official state television of Iran. Among these families Ali Chabishat’s family refused to be filmed, but a few months later the Intelligence ministry contacted them and asked them to allow filming if they wanted to avoid their son’s execution. On November 2013, two official TV stations in Iran broadcasted a documentary, “lost in darkness” showing the ‘confessions’ of Ali Chabishat, Khaled Mousavi, and Salman Chayani along with images of their families. Numerous witnesses have given testimony to the extreme torture imposed on individuals, being held by government branches, who confess against themselves and their friends </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='2928'> Iran’s official TV channel (Press TV), broadcast footage of these individuals during November and June of 2013. In these films, they accepted the responsibility for the gas pipeline explosions of October 2012 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='2926'> Branch 4 of the Revolutionary Court of Ahwaz, headed by judge Seyed Mohammad Bagher Mousavi sentenced Ali Chabishat and Saeed Khaled Mousavi to execution and Salman Chayani to 25 years incarceration in exile. The charges against these individuals were, “warring against god through planting bombs in the gas pipeline’s path.”The bombs were planted in the pipeline’s path that was located on Ali Chabishat’s land </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='14009'> It was announced that their verdict was confirmed by the Supreme Court of Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='14010'> Security agents informed the families of Ali Chabishat and Khaled Mousavi’s execution in March, 2015, in an unknown location. They took Chabishat’s family to the town of Ramhormoz and showed them the burial location of Ali Chabishat. Ramhormoz is 200 kilometers from where Ali Chabishat’s home making it difficult for the family to visit his grave. Khaled Mousavi’s family were told that they will be informed of the burial location of their son at a later date </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='2927'> Security forces surrounded Ali Chabishat’s mother’s funeral, arresting him and a few others. Security forces imprisoned the arrested in the detention center of the Intelligence Ministry in Ahwaz. Denying them access to visits with family or attorney. According to reports the arrested were tortured and forced to confess on television </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='5212'> It was reported that he is still incarcerated </coverage-outsourcing>