Sasan Aghaei

Sasan Aghaei has collaborated with newpapers such as , Etemad, Yas-No, Fahrikhtegan, Sobh-e-Azadi, Gooya, Advar News, Saham News and Khordad. He has been arrested many times. Before, he wrote in the political and International relations fields. He was attracted to political and economic liberalism.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='18385'> Was arrested in the demonstrations on the anniversary of the attack on University road in Tehran. He was released from Evin a few weeks later </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18386'> Arrested. According to the International Campaign for Human Rights, he was held in solitary confinement in Unit 209 for 108 days and inward 350 of Evin Prison for 20 days </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18388'> Reporters Without Borders issued a statement protesting his and several other journalist’s arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18389'> Was released upon posting a 50 million Toman bail. For the charge of “publishing falsehoods” a prohibition to prosecute was issued, but the charge of “propagating against the state” will be reviewed in court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18392'> According to The Committee Of Human Rights Reporters, he was sentenced to one year in incarceration for “propagating against the state” by judge Moghiseh, at branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18387'> Was arrested in the collective arrest of a number of reformist journalists. These arrests were met with different protests inside and outside the country and those arrested were eventually released in the following days and months </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18393'> Reporters Without Borders condemned his, and other journalists’ arrests </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18391'> According to Advar News, his family has been informed that he is banned from visits. His last phone call was placed a week ago </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18390'> According to HRANA, Nasrin Takhiri, Sasan Aghaei and Saba Azarpeyk were released from ward 209 of Evin prison upon posting bail </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18383'> Was arrested in the offices of Etemad newspaper. At this time, he was the deputy editor of the newspaper. A few days later, this newspaper’s website was filtered. Intelligence agents searched Sasan Aghaei’s home and office and confiscated some of his belongings. Kalame website has introduced the agents “connected to the judiciary” as the bailiffs in this arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18384'> The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, reports that he was transferred to branch 3 of the Culture and Media Court. In this court they issued Sasan Aghaei a warrant of a month long arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19053'> The International Federation of Journalists requested the release of Sasan Aghaei and Yaghma Fashkhami </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18556'> Zeitoon reported that he was denied of telephone calls and visits in the last days </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18615'> The International Campaign for Human Rights reported that he is incarcerated in ward 204 of Evin prison, which, belongs to the judiciary’s security, According to this report he was imprisoned for charges such as “connection with Amad News” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18645'> Reporters Without Borders condemned the “continuation of the repression of journalists and the media in Iran” and gave news of the arrest of Sasan Aghaei, Yaghma Fashkhami, and the issuance of a verdict of incarceration for Aliyeh Motallebzade </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18608'> His mother told Etemad newspaper, that three day after the arrest the interrogator gave permission to have a visit. But the prison has prevented Sasan Aghaei from seeing his family. According to the report by Etemad, Sasan Aghaei has, also, not had telephone contact with his family until now. Their only meeting took place at court when the day he was charged </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18840'> Kalameh, quoting Saham, wrote, “evidence points to the fact that he is under pressure to confess to the false charges”. According to this report, Sasan Aghaei, has only had one telephone contact with his family since the time of his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18950'> Two Iranian journalists arrested in Tehran in August 2017 remain detained without formal charges, Human Rights Watch said. The authorities should immediately release them or charge them with recognizable criminal offenses and ensure them fair trials </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18972'> Zeitoon reported that the second branch of the Court of Culture and Media renewed his arrest warrant for an additional month </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19596'> An informed source told IPA that his interrogations have ended and they are keeping Mr. Sasan Aghaei in solitary confinement in order to place him under pressure </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19097'> Kalameh reported that his family was able to visit him for the first time since his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19388'> Fatemeh Saeedi, member of parliament, told ILNA, “given that two months have passed since the temporary arrest of the journalist, Sassan Aghaei, I request that the judicial authorities agree to set a cash or promissory bail for him” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19371'> Elyas Hazrati, the managing director of Etemad and member of parliament, told Ensaf News that despite his efforts to secure the release of Sasan Aghaei, he has not been successful. He said, “they have told me that his problem regards Amad News. He, himself, denied this </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19597'> Shargh newspaper, wrote, quoting his family, the interrogations of Sasan Aghaei has ended as of September 3, 2017, but he remains incarcerated in a solitary cell. He has, until now, protested the renewal of his arrest, twice, but his request has been rejected and his arrest has been renewed. Since a month after his arrest he has been allowed one telephone cabin contact per week and two face to face visits </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20308'> Narges Mohammadi once again emphasized that solitary confinement was a torture, and, as in the Stalin era, holding the prisoner’s fingers between doors and breaking them was a way to obtain false confessions, solitary confinement is also a way to break the prisoner in the absence of evidence. Referring to Sasan Aghaei and Yaghma Fashkhami, she considers them as examples of this. She asks: > In examining the prolongation of the prison term in a cell, can it be concluded that the formula has changed to a certain magnitude, and the" longitude " of staying a finger between a door, has changed to the "longitude "of a prisoner’s stay inside a cell in order of reaching a single result to obtain "confessions? The letter, which was published by Kalameh, has been recorded in the evidence section of the profile of Narges Mohammadi in Atlas </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20405'> According to IPA, he was released on bail </coverage-outsourcing>