Reza Golpour Chamarkuhi

He was the author of the book, “Hearsay”. This book, reviews security issues, in several volumes, especially, in case of the Khatami government and the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization of Iran. Until now, Mr. Golpour has been arrested several times. It has been said that he is close to the “the cyber resistance base of Ammariyon website."

• <coverage-outsourcing id='13134'> He was arrested by security forces after the publication of his book. He was incarcerated in a solitary cell for several months. According to Tabnak, in the stages that followed the wide web of his charges were reduced to “propagating against the state” and finally, he was given a 1.5 million toman fine at branch 30 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, the political section of this case ended </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13135'> Fars reported that his family wrote a letter to Mohammad Khatami, the president of Iran at the time, requesting that Reza Golpour be given access to a lawyer. According to this letter, since his arrest, two weeks ago, Reza Golpour has been kept in solitary confinement and has no access to a lawyer. He was later released. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15349'> Reza Golpour, during the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, tried to publish articles about Rahim Mashai and Rahimi and others close to Ahmadinejad, and for this reason he was sentenced to 91 days incarceration by branch 1057, court for government workers. The verdict was confirmed and in 2014 the news of his summoning to begin the sentence was published. According to some reports the managing director was also given a 91 days prison sentence in this case </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13136'> According to Ensaf News, Reza Golpour, in a piece he wrote for Ammariyon website, based on the information he had, discussed the role Mehdi Boutorabi played in a foreign sale in his capacity as the representative of General Ali Reza Asgari, and requested “accurate investigation” of the condition of Mr. Boutorabi who had been taken to Evin prison, some time ago, to spend begin his sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16149'> He was, probably, arrested on this date </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13133'> Zeitoon reported that he was arrested and sent to ward 2A of IRGC detention center on charges such as, “spying for foreign countries,character assassination of regime notables and collaboration in the publication of falsehoods.” In this report, Zeitoon, also, mentions the arrest of Mohammad Hossein Rostami, the manager of the Ammariyon website. Zeitoon reports that Mr. Golpour has, in the past months, published a story in different media outlets, about Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan, Sardar (Genera) Asgari and Khosrow Tehrani, that may have led to his arrest. Zeitoon wrote that news sources have published news of a kind of “personal settling of accounts amongst the elite of the security apparatus” after the “publication of a particular news” by Mr. Golpour and Ammariyon website </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16150'> He was, probably, taken to ward 4 of Evin prison on this date </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16148'> Abdolreza Davari, wrote in his telegram account, quoting him, that today in the library in ward 4 of Evin prison, he saw Reza G (probably Reza Golpour) the author of the controversial book, Sh. A (probably Shavand Eshbah). Based on this account, Mr. Golpour has spent six months in ward 2A of Evin for the crimes of “spying for Israel, armed action against national security, and insulting the leadership,” and is now awaiting a court hearing headed by judge Salavati, in July, 2017 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16152'> Zeitoon wrote, quoting an informed source, “ numerous charges have been filed against this security-media personality, such as ‘spying for foreign countries, character assassination of regime notables and collaboration in the publication of false news’.” The report , also, maintains, “Golpour, wrote some stories about Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan (exiled by IRGC to Amman) and General Asgari (dead) and Khosrow Tehrani, in different media outlets, that could be the reason for his arrest. Zeitoon’s sources discussed a kind of “settling of personal scores” among the upper echelons of the security apparatus’ elite” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18582'> The judiciary’s spokesman said,“lately the hearing for the author of the Hearsay has begun and it can be said that the charges against these individuals are security charges”. According to Fars news agency Mohseni Ejei said, in answering one of the questions, asked by a journalist, of whether or not the author of the book of Hearsay and the manager of the site were arrested because of espionage for Israel, “whether they are arrested or not, I haven’t the latest news.” He added,“two individuals are charged in this case” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19239'> Hossein Shariatmadari told Fars news agency that around 20 years ago, Reza Golpour had contributed several pieces in Keyhan,he is not a Keyhan writer, a few days after the publication of the Hearsay book, Mr. Shariatmadari discussed the book in detail and claimed that Mr. Golpour has filed a complaint against Shariatmadari,but has rescinded the complaint </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19242'> Rouhollah Hosseinian told Ensaf news that he had no connection with Hossein Golpour and the Ammariyon website </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='25412'> According to Abdolreza Davari, he was sentenced to 28 years in prison by judge Salavati (Article 134: 15 years). This sentence was reduced to 15 years in prison by the Appeals Court </coverage-outsourcing>