Sakhi Rigi

Before his arrest he was writing blogs and he was a member of the Voice of Justice, which is a social and civic organization in Sistan and Baluchestan province. Mr. Rigi was active in the campaign headquarters of Mir Hossein Mousavi. He was also a student in software engineering at the Technical University

• <coverage-outsourcing id='11621'> According to reports journalists and human rights groups, including Reporters Without Borders in Iran, on this date, a few days after the elections of 2009, He was arrested in Zahedan </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11625'> Mohammad Marzieh has told IRNA that Sakhi Rigi was arrested on this date </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11624'> Reporters Without Borders, published a statement giving news of his sentence of prison and exile, while condemning Iran’s treatment of bloggers. Reporters Without Borders rejected the claims of the judicial apparatus in this case and demanded that the regime in Iran free the bloggers </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11623'> In a report, titled, “The sad condition of the Karoun prison in Ahvaz, a prison without a roof”, was published where his exile and details of his case were also published, “other bloggers in Karoun, Sakhi Rigi who runs Baluchestan Sarafraz (Proud Baluchestan) blog, was sentenced to twenty years, only for having published a piece of news that had appeared in tens of other websites including the BBC and Radio Farda. He was exiled from Zahedan prison to Karoun prison in Ahvaz. Sakhi Rigi confessed, under torture, to publishing a piece of news, from a source that doesn’t exist, and that had been already published on tens of internet sites. He confessed to being the first site to publish this news and this unreliable confession is the basis of his sentence. In the evidence against him there is nothing but his confession and a blog. In truth, Sakhi Rigi has been given the heavy sentence of 20 years in prison because he comes from the same family as Abdol Karim Rigi” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11622'> According to Kayhan- number 19945 page,15 - quoting IRNA, Mohammad Marzieh, the prosecutor of Zahedan said, “Sakhi Rigi or Saeed Balouch was condemned to 20 years incarceration in exile to Ahvaz province, for the charge of collaborating with the Abdelmalek terrorist cell, for insulting state authorities to 6 months incarceration, and for forgery and using forged legal documents to paying a hundred thousand Toman cash fine.” Mohammad Marzieh claimed the charges include, “publishing news. Announcements and other subjects related to the (Jundullah) cells” “provoking public opinion” by publication of a wide range of topics in a personal web blog about the execution of Yaghoub Mehrnahad and “publication of news and content on foreign websites opposed to Islamic Iran in his web blog” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11628'> In the days when the news of the hostage taking of the border patrol agents by Jaish ul-Adl (Justice Army) was headlining the newspapers and media, Sakhi Rigi, Ebrahim Rigi, and Ismael Vafaei published a harshly worded statement, as Balouch and Sunni prisoners, condemning and expressing his revulsion at the hostage taking that aims to reach an exchange of prisoners with the guards. They stressed that “any act of violence or terror in this region will hurt all of the citizens of Iran” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='4799'> It was reported that he is incarcerated in Karoun Prison in Ahvaz </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11626'> According to a report the political prisoners of Karoun prison in Ahvaz were transferred to Sheyban prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11627'> In the human rights abuses research panel of the Canadian Senate looking into “human rights abuses in Iran”, Senator Salma Ataullahjan described his condition </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13780'> His name was on the list of names “some of the Baluch prisoners” published by Baluch Activists Campaign </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19270'> According to the report that IPA had received, in hall 6, ward 1 of Sheyban prison, reserved for political prisoners, both security and religious cases. These prisoners have no access to books, newspapers or teaching tools, they are allowed to use the gym twice a month. They aren’t allowed to leave their ward, treatment of their grave maladies is conditional upon permission of the Intelligence Ministry. For example, it has been more than a year and a half since, despite the doctor’s’ recommendation, Ali Mazrae’s surgery has been delayed, and Jaber Sakhravi who suffers from, MS, paralyses of his right leg, enlarged testicles and abdominal pain has been denied transfer to prison. A number of political and religious prisoners, including Ayoub Porkar, Sakhi Rigi and Esmail Vafaei, were exiled to prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21116'> The Baloch Activists campaign reported that his sentence has been reduced to 10 years in prison. He has probably asked for a retrial and, after the confirmation of the Supreme Court, the case was again investigated by the appeals court of Sistan and Baluchistan province </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23087'> According to HRANA, he embarked on a hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='25608'> He was released from prison </coverage-outsourcing>