Abdollah Bozorgzadeh Sarbazi

He was arrested for protesting chain rape in Iranshahr. His arrest is allegedly prolonged because of his brother Habibullah's human rights activities

<coverage-outsourcing id='23163'> Based on conversations between Abdollah Bozorgzadeh and intelligence officials during his arrest, authorities refrained from providing an arrest warrant at the time. The voice recording can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23158'> Was arrested. A few days prior, the news of the orchestrated rape of 41 women from Iranshahr had been published, which was denied by regime authorities. Following numerous rallies and public messages of protest, security authorities arrested a number of protesters and civil activists involved </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23159'> An informed source notified Atlas that considering that the majority of those arrested have been released, Abollah Bozorgzadeh remaining in custody reinforces the notion that his continued imprisonment is meant to put pressure on his brother Habibollah Sarbazi and the Campaign for Baluch Activists. Habibollah Sarbazi is among the leaders of the human rights website, and resides outside Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23160'> According to the Campaign of Baluch activists, in his Friday sermons Molavi Koohi has said: “some people were arrested during the recent events in Iranshahr, and one of them, named Abdollah Bozorgzadeh, is still in prison. I urge the relevant authorities that he too be released so that the accusation that he’s in prison due to his brother Habibollah Sarbaazi’s activities, is not put upon you” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23162'> According to IRNA, Ebrahim Hamidi, chief justice of Sistan and Baluchestan province stated: “in the process of this incident certain anti-regime media have intervened in order to take advantage of the situation and sully the name of the administration. In this vain, one of the ‘bitter’ intervenors - whose brother has been in touch with and collaborating with foreign media - took part in the public gathering in Iranshahr,and proceeded to try to record film footage as he was encouraging youth to cause chaos and deface city property. Through the vigilance of (the unknown soldiers of Imam Zaman!!) he was promptly identified and arrested” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23173'> Amnesty International, published a statement whereby it asked for his release. This statement was published in the Farsi portion of this Human Rights organization’s Telegram page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23161'> According to the Campaign of Baluch activists, his father, Gholam Ghader Bozorgzadeh did a sit-in in front of Iranshahr city’s IRGC building following his son’s arrest. He has told the campaign: “Until today, none of the places we visited gave us any news. We were tortured and abused, emotionally and physically. We don’t know where he is or whether he is alive. We don’t know anything and have had no contact with him. I, an elderly man, go to the IRGC building and they tell me he’s not with them, even though the Intelligence Ministry says he’s with IRGC. Now I’m compelled to do a sit-in until I’m given some news about my son”. He added: “my son was arrested during a civil rally. He is not advocating against any organization. He had gone to the rally to call for the prosecution of systematic rape, and was arrested after the rally was over following a speech by Iranshahr’s governor, as he was on his way home” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23197'> His father, Gholam Ghader Bozorgzadeh, gave a detailed interview with Atlas detailing his child's arrest. According to him, his son had seen one of his relatives next day in the court corridor and told him: > He was tortured last night and felt injured in his waist, walking with hardship </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23201'> The IRGC released a video of his and several other Baloch civil activists' forced confessions </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23234'> His father was arrested for a few hours, and his younger brother, Mohammad Tayeb Bozorgzadeh was called to appear by the FATA police </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='23259'> More than 100 civil, political, and human-rights activists wrote a collective letter asking for his release </coverage-outsourcing>