Anvar Khezri

He is one of the individuals that was accused in a case brought against individuals for “membership in jihadi groups” in the second half of 2009. The entirety of the developments of the cases were uniform for all of the citizens, there may be differences in dates and details, that have not been taken into account by Atlas in its archival filing

• <coverage-outsourcing id='14285'> Atlas reported that Anvar Khezri, Davoud Abdollahi, Kamran Shiekheh, Farhad Salimi, Khosrow Besharat, Ghassem Absateh and Ayoub Karim, had been arrested on this date. They spent most of the first days of their arrest in solitary confinement at the Urmia Intelligence Ministry detention center prison. They had no access to lawyers and were severely tortured. They also had no contact with their families. Most of those arrested in this case reside in towns of Western Azerbaijan. Based on a letter published by the Detention Center, the interesting feature of this case i that Anvar Khezri, Kamran Sheikh, Ghassem Abesteh and Khosrow Besharat turned themselves into the prosecutor after they were summoned </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2112'> Upon his transfer to Evin Prison, he spent more than five months in solitary confinement in Wards 209 and 240 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2113'> He was transferred to Ward 350 of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2114'> He was transferred to Rajaee Shahr Prison after spending 20 days in Ward 350 of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14288'> BBC Persian service reported that Ebrahim Saeedi, Anvar Khezri, and Kamran Sheikheh “started a hunger strike that lasted one month, protesting the terrible conditions of the prison and their incarceration where they are being held among common criminals, traffickers and murderers” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2115'> He was called into Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh after four years of his incarceration. In this trial , he and his co-defendants were given the option of a court appointed or chosen attorney </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2120'> He was summoned to Karaj's Revolutionary Court. He and his two co-defendants who were previously exonerated of "Murder". They were once again pressured to confess to this crime by Branch 9 of Karaj's Revolutionary Court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2117'> The trial session for him and six other Sunni prisoners was not held due to their attorney and the representative of the Intelligence Ministry not being present </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15561'> Those arrested in this case, wrote a letter proclaiming their innocence. According to this letter they were arrested for the killing of a soldier, but they claim that two others have already been arrested and condemned by the court for this killing. Moreover the two who were originally tried for this crime have already made a statement regarding their innocence and deposed on behalf of them </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15567'> According to a letter from those arrested in this case, Anvar Khezri has attempted suicide in order to escape, “heavy physical and psychological torture.” Afterwards, Mr. Khezri, was taken to the hospital where he underwent surgery. According to this report when he had regained consciousness he saw ink on his finger. The authors of the letter claim that this is a sign of fake confessions, unbeknownst to Mr. Khezri himself </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2118'> According to reports another one of his court hearings was convened, but some sources mention that because of the non-presence of a defense lawyer, the hearing was not held </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2116'> It was reported that he has entered his sixth year in a state of judicial limbo </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='5349'> It has been reported that he is still in a state of limbo in prison not knowing the final verdict </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='6160'> According to HRANA the warrant to execute the seven accused in this case was issued by judge Moghiseh and carried out in Rajaee Shahr prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14286'> HRANA reported that the Supreme Court has reversed the verdict of execution of Anvar Khosravi, Davoud Abdollahi, Kamran Sheikheh, Farhad Salimi, Khosrow Besharat, Ghassem Abesteh and Ayoub Karimi </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14313'> HRANA reported that due to the severity of the torture inflicted upon Anvar Khezri, he is in need of competent medical attention. The medical records of Mr. Khezri, which demonstrated that because of “a heavy blow” he is suffering from shortness of breath and pain in his rib-cage, have “disappeared.” According to this report, while he was incarcerated in the Intelligence ministry’s detention center in Urmia, interrogators would beat him with, in the rib-cage with “iron weights” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14978'> Mohammad Alizadeh Tabatabae, without naming the accused in this case, told Insaf News that the verdict of execution had been previously set by the Judge at the Supreme Court of Iran. The file was sent to branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court. According to his statements they were accused of the crime of heresy … and sentenced to be execution. But they don’t fit the accusations in this case and deny charges of terror </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19073'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network in Kerman reports that Khosro Besharat, Kamran Sheykheh and Anvar Khezri were transferred to Urmia prison in order to appear at the parallel hearing at branch 12 of the court of appeals of Western Azerbaijan. They protested being kept among ordinary prisoners and after beginning a hunger strike were sent to solitary cells. They ended the hunger strike after six days </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19484'> Along with four others in Urmia prison’s psychiatric ward 1 where severely assaulted & beaten by around 40 prisoners with dangerous charges. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, after this attack, all five were taken to solitary cells in leg & hand cuffs. According to this report, later, Mr. Alireza Safari, the chief warden of the prison at the time, covered his face & with the help of the other guards, using a baton, assaulted and beat them again. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, quoting an informed source, wrote, that the assaulting group was under the supervision of Rashid Zolf Alizadeh & Hossein Gharabaghi, the warden of the psychiatric ward, who had previously beaten the political prisoner Hassan Rastegari Majd </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20232'> HRANA reported that seven of the defendants are still in abeyance. According to this report, their execution sentence has been violated in the Supreme Court by Judge Razini </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23186'> The casefiles belonging to Khosro Besharat, Kamran Sheikheh, and Anvar Khazari were re-examined by the 12th branch of the Western Azerbaijan Court of Appeal. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights network, a few days later, the court sentenced Khazari and Besharat to 10 years imprisonment for being “accomplices to murder” and Sheikheh to the death penalty for the charge of murder </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='53811'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2023/hranews/a-42662/'> Ghasem Abesteh, Davoud Abdollahi, Ayoub Karimi, Anvar Khezri, Khosrow Besharat, Kamran Sheikheh, and Farhad Salimi were transferred to Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. While announcing this news, HRANA reported that these people are all kept in a suite without facilities, which has increased their families' concerns. According to this source, Ghasem Abesteh, who suffers from kidney disease and thyroid problems, has been deprived of proper medical care. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>