Adnan Mousavi Ghobeyshavi

Adnan Mousavi Ghobeyshavi

<p>Adnan Mousavi Ghobeishavi is from Ahvaz, Kout Seyed Saleh region. He was arrested in a group case and was tortured many times during interrogation. In the end, some of the detainees in this case were sentenced to death by the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court, and the other defendants were sentenced to prison.</p>

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52525'> <reference source='https://rb.gy/igplz'> At three in the morning on Monday, November 12, 2018, following the shooting of two young motorcyclists on Arvand Saghir coastal road, one of these citizens died at the scene of the accident and the second person died of his injuries after being transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Abadan. This is the story of the Fars News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, about the killing of two Basij fighters in Abadan, named "Ali Salehi Majd" and "Younes Bahr", according to "Seyed Mohsen Taghizadeh", the commander of the Abadan Police Force. A narrative that was published on the website of this news agency a few hours after the incident. An hour after the incident, some media and social media users attributed this event to the members of Harakah al-Nidal Party. However, one day later, on November 13, the prosecutor of Abadan and the commander of the police force of this city denied the news published about the participation of Harakah al-Nidal members in this incident in an interview with the media. The commander of the Abadan police force said in an interview with state TV news agency: > The murder case has nothing to do with the Basij membership of these two young men. From the police's point of view, this is not a security issue, and their being Basij members has nothing to do with the incident, because these motorcyclists were not on a mission. In this report, the state TV news agency wrote: > According to a source, family dispute is probably the motive for this murder. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52534'> <reference source='https://rb.gy/588i1'> 35 minutes in the morning on the 25th of January 2019; A police officer of Bandar Khomeini's 13th police station, named 1st Lieutenant "Allah Nazar Safari" and a soldier named "Mohammedreza Rafiei Nasab" were killed by AK47 bullets from unknown people. While announcing this news, the Police Martyrs information website wrote that the bodies of these two police officers were buried in Bandar Khomeini a day later. For months after this incident, in all the news published in the local and state media in this connection, the perpetrators of the shooting were mentioned as "unknown assailants". None of the news mentioned the name of a person, group, or political movement. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='47538'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a6%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%ac%d8%af%db%8c%d8%af-%d8%a7%d8%b2-%d9%be%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af%d9%87-%d8%b4%d8%b4-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c-%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%b3%db%8c-%d8%b9/'> According to IPA sources, over 33 people were arrested between February 2019 and April 2019 by the IRGC Intelligence in Ahvaz. Most of them were severely tortured, were denied communication with family and access to their attorneys for months, and were kept in solitary cells in the Abolfazl base in Ahvaz. They were transferred to Shiban, Sepidar, and Mahshahr Prisons. At the same time, IRGC Intelligence arrested the wives and children of Ali Mojadam and Habib Daris to put more pressure on them. A former political prisoner told IPA that the "interrogators tortured Ali Mojdam in front of his wife and child, and kept him in solitary for more than six months to force him to give a fake confession." The source added: > Habib Daris said the IRGC Intelligence interrogators tied my feet and pulled up while I was upside down, and they'd push my head down in the water. Sometimes while I was tied up, they'd put a towel over my face and waterboard me over and over. These were aside from the regular torture with cable and green pipes. They'd hit my feet with a cable and green pipe to a bloody mess that my skin would peel off. He went on to say: > The interrogators wouldn't allow Habib to sleep. They'd sometimes give him watermelon to eat and then tie his genitalia so he couldn't urinate. According to this former political prisoner, most of the people in the case were treated similarly. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='47377'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a6%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%ac%d8%af%db%8c%d8%af-%d8%a7%d8%b2-%d9%be%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af%d9%87-%d8%b4%d8%b4-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c-%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%b3%db%8c-%d8%b9/'> He was transferred to Sheyban Prison in Ahvaz. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52541'> <reference source='https://rb.gy/i3hxe'> One year after the killing of two Basij fighters in Abadan, the families of these two Basij fighters, in an interview with Rokna, a news agency close to the security institutions of the Islamic Republic, said that "permission to place a tombstone" on the graves of Ali Salehi Majd and Yunes Bahr has not yet been given, and government officials and the officials of the Martyr Foundation have not recognized these two Basij as "martyrs" in their letters. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='47378'> After the spread of coronavirus in prison and riots in several prisons across the country, due to the terrible sanitary conditions of the prison and concerns about their lives, prisoners in Shiban Prison started to protest. Karim Borvayeh was among the political prisoners involved in the protests. A few years later, he told IPA that the prisoners started their protest at noon on March 31, 2020, by chanting against the prison authorities. During the pandemic, sick prisoners did not have access to sufficient medical treatment. The efforts of families to get them medical furlough were unanswered. According to Mr. Borvayeh, a few hours after the beginning of the altercations, the prison guard lost the capacity to suppress the prisoners and lost control, therefore special forces were deployed to prison. Agents in civilian clothing (mostly IRGC and Basij members) entered the prison at 4:30 while shooting tear gas and after that, the shooting at prisoners with a focus on ward 5 intensified. The suppression forces covered the floor of the hall of ward 5 with water and dish soap and broken glass to hurt and hinder the prisoners. After prisoners would lose their balance, the agents would inflict heavy blows to their heads with batonsMr. Borvayeh says he remembers the interior supervisor of the prison Hassan Zolfaghari was standing behind the suppression forces yelling: > Kill them (prisoners) all. They're all ISIS. Mr. Borvayeh also mentioned prison staff who had a direct role in the suppression of prisoners: > I saw with my own eyes that Mr. Sakhravi, Abdolhossein Gholamnejad, and Mohammad Ali Anari, all prison security, were positioned on the roof of ward 8 and infirmary and were shooting live rounds at prisoners. Many prisoners were injured during the shootings and four were killed. At the order of Shiban Prison warden Ahmad Reza Azadeh, the suppression forces evacuated ward 5 by forming a "death tunnel , where two groups of suppression forces form a corridor and force the prisoners to pass between them as they start beating the prisoners. Mohammad Ali Anarichief of security of the Prisons Organization of Khuzestan Province, Mr. Khosri, Shiban Prison chief of security, and Mr. Varmarziyar, one of the prison authorities were directly involved in the torture of prisoners. According to Mr. Borvayeh, these individuals tied up the prisoners' hands and legs and continued to torture them in various methods until midnight. In addition, in order to break some prisoners' spirits, they would force some of the respected elder prisoners to strip to their underwear and then they would beat them with tasers and batons. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52548'> <reference source='https://rb.gy/zc5g9'> On the third anniversary of the killing of two Basij fighters in Abadan, the state TV news agency reported that Ali Salehi Majd and Yunes Bahr were still not accepted as martyrs by the Martyr Foundation and they were not issued a "martyrdom code". It seems that some government institutions, including the Martyr Foundation, did not accept the narrative of the security institutions about how the two Basij members were killed and assessed the cause of their deaths differently. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='47539'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%ac%d8%b2%d8%a6%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%ac%d8%af%db%8c%d8%af-%d8%a7%d8%b2-%d9%be%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af%d9%87-%d8%b4%d8%b4-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c-%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%b3%db%8c-%d8%b9/'> According to an IPA source, the 4th branch of the revolutionary court of Ahvaz sentenced six Arab ethnic citizens to death and several others to five to 35 years in prison. Ali Mojadam, Habib Daris, Salem Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Adnan Mousavi, and Moein Khanfari have been sentenced to death on the charge of Moharebeh. The court also sentenced Fares Amouri to 35 years, Jassem Aal-Boughobeish to 15 years, Eskandar Mojadam and Mohammad Ghasem Mojadam, Raad Maniat, and Tofigh Maniat to five years in prison each. An IPA source stated that some of the defendants, including those sentenced to death today have had no political activity in their background. It is noteworthy that the judge in the case delivered the sentences to the prisoners in prison personally. Other prisoners might have also received sentences but we don't know. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52555'> <reference source='https://rb.gy/hy08o'> Three weeks after the news of the conviction of 12 Arab political prisoners by IPA, Mizan, the official news agency of the judiciary, confirmed the news published by Atlas. In this report, Mizan named Ali Mojadam, Mohammad Reza Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Mousavi Ghobeishavi and Salem Mousavi, and wrote: > Six members of the terrorist group Harkah al-Nidal, who in 2017 and 2018 carried out part of the armed operations of this group were in charge of the military operations of this groups in Khuzestan province were sentenced to death. In this report, Mizan did not mention the prison sentences issued in this case against six other Arab prisoners. Referring to the incident of the death of two Basij fighters in Abadan and two police officers in Bandar Khomeini, Mizan identified the perpetrators of the deaths of these people as Ali Majadam, Mohammad Reza Majadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Adnan Mousavi Ghobeishavi, and Salem Mousavi, and claimed that the accused in confessed to the murder of Ali Salehi Majd and Yunus Bahr in Abadan and Allahnazar Safari and Mohammad Reza Rafi'inasab in Bandar Khomeini. No photo or video of the court session has been published in this report. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52693'> According to Atlas sources, during the past month, the transfer of general crime prisoners to Ward 5 of Sheyban Ahvaz Prison, which is where political prisoners are held, has caused tension and conflict between the prisoners in this ward, and political prisoners have been assaulted in several cases. An IPA source says that the transfer of general crime prisoners from Sepidar prison and other wards of Sheyban prison to Ward 5 of this prison has started since the beginning of June. In June of this year, following a physical fight between a number of political prisoners in Ward 5 and newly arrived prisoners, the prison authorities put a number of political prisoners, including Mohammad Reza Majdam, Moin Khanfari and Salem Mousavi, in solitary confinement for a week. According to the IPA sources, the transfer of prisoners with charges of murder, drugs, and other general charges to Ward 5 of Sheyban Prison was done to intensify the pressure on political prisoners and this action was done by the direct order of Gholamreza Roshan, Director General of Prisons in Khuzestan and Mohammad Anari, Head of General Security of the prisons of this province, and has been implemented by Ahmadreza Azadeh, the head of Sheyban prison. After the general crime prisoners were transferred to Ward 5 of Sheiban prison, the political prisoners imprisoned in this ward have repeatedly protested against this action. However, Ahmadreza Azadeh, the head of Sheyban prison, has refused to accept the request of political prisoners and to implement the principle of segregation of crimes in this prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52856'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a8%d8%b1%d8%b1%d8%b3%db%8c-%d9%be%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%86%d8%af%d9%87-%db%b1%db%b2-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c-%d8%b3%db%8c%d8%a7%d8%b3%db%8c-%d8%b9%d8%b1%d8%a8%d8%9b-%db%8c%da%a9-%d9%be%d8%b1/'> IPA in a research report titled "Investigation of the case of 12 Arab political prisoners; One case, six death sentences, 70 years in prison", discussed the ambiguities in the case of Ali Mojadam, Mohammad Reza Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Mousavi Ghobeishavi, Faris Amouri, Jasem Alboghobeish, Eskander Mojadam, Mohammad Ghasem Mojadam, Raad Maniat, and Tofigh Maniat. In this report, the violations in the trial process of the case of these 12 political prisoners have been documented and at the same time, a part of the repression mechanism of the Islamic Republic in Khuzestan has been exposed. The findings recorded in this report are based on the IPA database, the Atlas interview with eyewitnesses, the review of audio and video evidence, and the statements of government officials and media. According to the results of this investigative report, in the case of these 12 Ahvazi Arab political prisoners, the right to a fair trial was violated, indiscriminate violence was used during detention, the accused were subjected to torture and cruel behaviors, the families of some defendants were put under pressure, they have experienced arrest, threats and harassment, the defendants have been denied access to their hired lawyers, and despite being aware of the confessions of the defendants under torture, the court has made their forced confessions the basis for issuing judgments. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52861'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu2FbGxSpp8/?img_index=1'> Following the start of the IPA campaign to support the six Ahvazi Arab political prisoners, seven political parties and opposition political organizations of the Islamic Republic issued a joint statement, condemning the death sentences of Ali Mojadam, Mohammad Reza Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Salem Mousavi, and Adnan Mousavi Ghobeishavi. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='52876'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a8%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c%d9%87-%d9%85%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%b1%da%a9-%db%b1%db%b3-%d8%aa%d8%b4%da%a9%d9%84-%d9%88-%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%b2%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%ad%d9%82%d9%88%d9%82-%d8%a8%d8%b4%d8%b1%db%8c/'> Sixteen human rights groups and organizations issued a statement condemning the death sentence against Ali Mojadam, Mohammad Reza Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib Deris, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Mousavi Ghobishavi. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>