Houshang Rezaei

Houshang Rezaei

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='1017'> He was arrested by security forces in Tehran. He was initially taken to Ward 209 of Evin Prison and ultimately transferred to Ward 350. His cousin, Saeid Rezaei, was also arrested due to helping him hide. Saeid Rezaei was later sentenced to one year in prison and transferred to Ward 350 of Evin Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='1018'> He was transferred from Ward 350 of Evin Prison to Hall 12 of Ward 4 in Karaj's Gohardasht Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='1019'> He was tried in Branch 28 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Moghiseh on the charge of " Enmity with God through connection and collaboration with the Komala Group" and sentenced to execution. This all took place while he was denied his right to an attorney. This sentence was relayed to him verbally in Rajaee Shahr Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='1020'> He was transferred from Karaj's Rajaee Shahr Prison to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='1021'> He was transferred to Evin Prison from Rajaee Shahr Prison and was pressured to accept the charges of murdering the nuclear scientists. He was also threatened with the implementation of his death sentence. He was returned to Rajaee Shahr Prison after 72 hours </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='8800'> Mafnews reported that he is still waiting for the restoration of the hearing </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='9775'> HRANA reports that after the fire, caused by welders trying to seal the windows in the political prisoners ward, one of the security prisoner which had caused a few disturbances among the political prisoners before,”attacked and “ threatened” Houshang Rezaei </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='18209'> According to Iran Prison Atlas, after the violent transfer of political prisoners from hall 12 ward 4 of Rajaee Shahr to hall 10 and the prisoners’ collective hunger strike, prison authorities threatened, with execution, Loghman Moradi, Zanyar Moradi and Houshang Rezaei, if they continued their hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='19449'> After the collective transfer of the political and ideological/religious prisoners of Rajaei Shahr prison to a new ward, a number of them began a hunger strike.This widespread hunger strike led to the prison guards and staff’s mistreatment of prisoners’ families, threatening of prisoners, putting prisoners in solitary confinement and withholding medical treatment and medicines. The collective protest was met with the media reaction of the judiciary, and the support of human rights organizations and some of the civil and political activists. Because some of the prisoner terminated their strike sooner and some of them were, also, transferred to solitary cells, the list of names changed during the period of the hunger strike, but in general, the names of prisoners who partook in the hunger strike, whose names have been confirmed by verified lists, are as follows: Majid Asadi, Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Shirzad, Saeed Masouri, Shahin Zoghitabar, Reza Akbari Monfared, Abolghasem Fouladvand, Hasan Sadeghi, Reza Shahabi, Mohammad Nazari, Payam Shakiba, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, Mohammal Ali Mansouri, Ebrahim Firouzi, Amir Ghaziani, Vahid Sayad Nasiri, Hamid Babaei, Zanyar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, Houshang Rezaei and Saeed Pourheydar. Among them Saeed Shirzad, Reza Shahabi, and Mohammad Nazari’s hunger strike lasted longer than 50 days.The last two, had continued their hunger strike in protest to the situation of their own cases </coverage-outsourcing>