• <coverage-outsourcing id='34489'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/2McAI3U'> An unknown person murdered two Basij members named Bashir Hamidi and Hasan Karoon on Basij premises in the city of Sheyban. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34490'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3acsEbl'> Ali Motiri was arrested and charged with murdering Basij members Bashir Hamidi and Hasan Karun. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='32729'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/features/41368'> One of Ali Motiri’s former cellmates told IranWire researchers that Motiri was held in solitary confinement at the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention center in Ahvaz for more than a year. In this location, he was subjected torepeated interrogations and torture. According to this source, Motiri was coerced through torture to confess to murder and membership in the speratist group Al-Ahwazi. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34492'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/2MsY597'> Prosecutors sent the case’s chargesheet, which includes charges for “two counts of murder, moharebe ( enmity against God) and corruption on earth” to the court. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34494'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3ouj20J'> Khuzestan Province’s Criminal Court 1 convicted Ali Motiri of “murder, Moharebe ( against God) and corruption on earth, and sentenced him to death According to IPA sources, Motiri was likely sentenced to execution on four counts. IPA researchers were unable to identify Motiri’s judge. Under Article 303 of Iran’s Code of Criminal Procedure the charges of moharebe and corruption on earth must be tried in a Revolutionary Court. In this case, Motiri was tried in a regular criminal court, which is technically illegal. Nevertheless, the judiciary has previously allowed criminal courts to try cases involving these charges despite the rule in Article 303. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34495'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3qY8bxI'> Branch 33 of the Supreme Court confirmed Ali Motiri’s death sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='32733'> <reference source=''> Ali Motiri’s father was arrested, according to an IPA source. Authorities arrested Motiri’s father shortly after widespread prisoner protests in Sheyban Prison against the “disregard of authorities for the spread of Covid-19” and the lack of prisoners’ access to health care. Given the timing, Motiri’s relatives believe his father may have been arrested in relation to these protests. IPA researchers cannot yet confirm the reason for or duration of his arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='32735'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3iYY344'> According to IPA reaserch, four Arab death row prisoners -- Ali Motiri, Hosein Seilavi, Ali Khosraji and Ali Majdam -- were transferred from Sheyvan Prison to the Ministry of Intelligence’s detention center in Ahvaz. This transfer led to concerns about the possibility of their impending execution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34804'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%ba%d8%b0%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%85%d8%ad%da%a9%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%b4%db%8c%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86/'> Ali Motiri, Hossein Seilavi, Ali Khosraji, Ali Majdam and Jassem Heydari are five Arab prisoners in Ahvaz’s Sheyban Prison who are being held in inhumane conditions. According to an IPA source familiar with Sheyban’s solitary cells, these cells lack heating and cooling facilities, which causes prisoners to suffer from hypothermia in the winter and hyperthermia in the summer. Sheyban Prison’s solitary cells are around 12 square meters. Sometimes, several prisoners are held simultaneously in one of these cells, without adequate space or hygiene. For example, the toilet is located inside the cell separated only by a short, one meter high partition. These unhygienic conditions threaten the health of prisoners and subjects them to the permanent smell of wastewater. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34792'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%ba%d8%b0%d8%a7%db%8c-%d9%85%d8%ad%da%a9%d9%88%d9%85%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%87-%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%b4%db%8c%d8%a8%d8%a7%d9%86/'> According to IPA research, Ali Motiri, Hosein Seilavi, Ali Khosraji, Ali Majdam and Jassem Heydari -- five Arab prisoners held in solitary cells of the Sheyban Prison who had been previously sentenced to death -- staged a hunger strike by sewing their lips together, to protest their prolonged solitary confinement and their impending execution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34496'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/39oOZTV'> Ali Motiri was executed in Ahvaz prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>