Bijan Rezaei

Bijan Rezaei is from Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and lives in Shiraz. He was arrested and sentenced to prison for protesting the execution of Navid Afkari (a November 2019 protester).

Navid Afkari was sentenced to prison and death for participating in the August 2018 protests in Shiraz. Iran's judiciary has claimed that he committed murder during the protests. He was tortured during his interrogation process. <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

<coverage-outsourcing id='26025'> HRANA reported that Bijan Rezaei was released from Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz after serving 26 months and 11 days in prison. He was sentenced to six years in prison by Judge Sadati for charges such as “disrupting public order through participation in street assembly and chanting”. After applying article 134 of the IPC, probably five years of this sentence would have been enforceable. According to the report, he was held in security ward 14 at unit one of Adel Abad Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='33638'> <reference source=''> According to Atlas sources, Bijan Rezaei was arrested by security forces in Shiraz and taken to custody. He was arrested for protesting the execution of Navid Afkari (executed political prisoner) online and attending his funeral. He did not go through the arraignment procedure and during the time he was detained the agents did not offer him any explanation about his charges. Initially, Khosravani, the chairman of the 14th branch of investigation, accused him of “forming a group with the intent to disrupt national security, propaganda against the state,” and “disseminating lies with intent to agitate public opinion”. The interrogators tried to force him to confess in front of a camera. According to people close to him, they wanted Bijan Rezaei to say in front of the camera that he works for certain political groups. The interrogators physically tortured him many times and threatened to persecute his family. Mr. Rezaei was denied access to attorney and family visitation during this time. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='33639'> <reference source=''> He was transferred to Shiraz central prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36576'> According to an IPA source, he was released from jail in Shiraz on a bail of three billion rials. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36577'> His trial was held in the first branch of the revolutionary court of Shiraz presided by Judge Mahmoud Sadati. His sentence was issued soon after. The court sentenced him to 17 months and 16 days in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the state” and the judge issued a sentence of 1.5 times the legal prison time due to “repeat offense”. The court also ordered him to do six months of propaganda in support of the state. Mr. Rezaei has objected to the sentence. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='36578'> His case was sent to a revolutionary verdict enforcement branch in Shiraz. Ms. Sajjadian is the magistrate of this court. Fars province appeal court reduced the primary court’s sentence to four months in prison and four months propaganda for the state without his presence or notification. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='41009'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-36254/'> According to HRANA, he reported to Adel Abad Prison to serve his sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>