Parviz Siyabi Garjan

.Parviz Siyabi Garjan is a law graduate and civil rights activist in Tabriz. Mr. Siyabi was arrested and sentenced to prison in relation to the protests on 24/07/2021 in Tabriz in support of the water-shortage protests in Khuzestan province.

After the call to protests from civil rights activists and parties opposing the Islamic Republic in Azerbaijan province, Tabriz city witnessed mass protests in support of the water-shortage protests in Khuzestan province. During the protests, dozens of citizens were arrested in Tabriz, Ardebil, Urmia, Nasim Shahr, Bostan Abad, and Sefidan Jadid, and some were sentenced to prison, flogging, and cash fines. <symbol-timeline></symbol-timeline>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='37096'> <reference source=''> According to an IPA source, 12 citizens in Ardebil were arrested by the security forces after gathering in Jiral Park in that city. Hossein Balakhani, Mostafa Parvin Joda, Morteza Parvin Joda, Mojtaba Parvin Joda, Hamed Heidari Baris, and Mohammad Jolani Ojagh, Parviz Siyabi Garjan, Sobhan Bakhshi, Mehdi Houshmand, Bahman Kheirjoo, Asgar Akbarzadeh Khezrabadi, and Sajjad Jolani Ojagh were arrested for protesting what they described as the open-borders permission by Iran for the transfer of Russian weapons to Armenia. The source said the citizens were violently assaulted and battered during the arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40463'> An IPA source reported that those arrested for the gathering at Jiral park in Ardebil were arraigned at the 10th branch of the public prosecutor’s office and the revolutionary court presided by Babak Nonahal and transferred to Ardebil prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40464'> After five days, Hossein Balakhani, Mostafa Parvin Joda, Morteza Parvin Joda, Mojtaba Parvin Joda, Hamed Heidari Baris, Mohammad Jolani Ojagh, Parviz Siyabi Garjan, Sobhan Bakhshi, Mehdi Houshmand, Bahman Kheirjoo, Asgar Akbarzadeh Khezrabadi, and Sajjad Jolani Ojagh are still denied visitation or phone call to their families. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37098'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/news/42058'> Parviz Siyabi Garjan was released on a 5 billion rials bail. After his release, Mr. Siyabi posted photos of himself with visible signs of battery from the time of the arrest. In an interview with IranWire, Mr. Siyabi said during the violent arrest, Sajjad Jolani’s nose was broken; Asgar Akbarzadeh’s eye and ear were hurt; Hossein Balakhani’s fingers were broken; Morteza Parvin’s back was hurt and Bahman Kheirjou and Mojtaba Parvin’s legs were also hurt. Parviz Siyabi went on to say that after the arrest, the agents continued to assault and batter them with tasers and batons. According to Siyabi, after observing the signs of assault on their bodies, Ardebil’s public prosecutor Seyed Abdollah Tabatabaei refused to document them and send them to the medical examiner. Siyabi also told Iranwire that the 12 arrested citizens are denied medical treatment in a detention center and Ardebil prison. Images of the damages that Parviz Siyabi Garjan and Sajjad Jolani Ojagh have suffered are available in the “Supporting Evidence” section on this page. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37521'> <reference source=''> Information Ministry agents in Ardebil arrested Parviz Siyabi Garjan. According to an IPA source, the agents arrested him without presenting a warrant. His arrest was during the new wave of arrests of citizens and civil rights activists in Azerbaijan after a protest in Tabriz in support of the water-shortage protests in Khuzestan province. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37522'> <reference source=''> Parviz Siyabi Garjan was transferred from Information Ministry detention to the Central Prison of Ardebil. The source told IPA that he is still being denied contact with family and access to his attorney. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37523'> <reference source=''> Parviz Siyabi Garjan was released from Central Prison of Tabriz on 2,500 million rials bail. According to a credible source, he did not have access to his medication while detained. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40465'> According to a credible source, the second branch of the revolutionary court of Ardebil presided by Judge Abdollah Ghadimi cleared Hossein Balakhani, Mostafa Parvin Joda, Morteza Parvin Joda, Mojtaba Parvin Joda, Hamed Heidari Baris, and Mohammad Jolani Ojagh, Parviz Siyabi Garjan, Sobhan Bakhshi, Mehdi Houshmand, Bahman Kheirjoo, Asgar Akbarzadeh Khezrabadi, and Sajjad Jolani Ojagh of the charges of insulting the leader of the Islamic Republic and assembly and collusion to disrupt national security. This case was opened for the 12 arrested citizens at the same time as their other case which is being reviewed by the criminal court two of Ardebil for the assembly at Jiral Park. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37101'> <reference source=''> The 102nd Branch of the criminal court of Ardebil sentenced the 12 citizens arrested at Jiral Park assembly to the sum of 180 months in prison and 888 lashes. According to the issued judgment, Judge Taher Rasouli, presiding over the 102nd branch of the criminal court of Ardebil sentenced the 12 arrested citizens to seven months and 16 days in prison and 74 lashes for disrupting public order in accordance with article 618 of the IPC; plus seven months and 16 days in prison for disobeying law enforcement officers in accordance with article 607 of the IPC. By applying article 134 of the IPC for reducing sentences, each of these individuals will receive seven months and 16 days in prison and 74 lashes. The judgment also states that the prison sentences of seven of the accused in this case, namely Hamed Heidary, Hossein Balakhani, Mohammad Jolani, Sajjad Jolani, Bahman Kheirjoo, Sobhan Bakhshi, and Parviz Siyabi Garjan, will be commuted to house arrest using electronic ankle monitor in Ardebil city. The court has suspended the sentences of Hossein Balakhani, Mohamad Jolani, and Sajjad Jolani; also, the flogging and half of the prison sentence of Parvi Siyabi Garjan have been suspended due to old age, and the court has sentenced all four prisoners to fours years in prison each. The ruling states that the old age of Parviz Siyabi Garjan and the blindness of Sajjad Jolani were the reasons for suspended sentences. The image of the judgment issued by the 102nd branch of the criminal court two of Ardebil is presented in the “Supporting Evidence” section of this page. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='37520'> <reference source=''> The first branch of the revolutionary court of Ardebil presided by Judge Vahid Mahdavirad sentenced Parviz Siyabi Garjan to a sum of 16 years in prison. According to a source, Mr. Siyabi Garjan was sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of forming or managing an illegal group in accordance with article 498 of the IPC; five years in prison on the charge of membership in illegal groups, in accordance with article 499 of the IPC; and one year in prison on the charge of propaganda against the regime in accordance with article 500 of the IPC. The source added that the court used Mr. Siyabi’s interviews with the media and posting content online supporting the assembly in Tabriz in support of the water-shortage protests in Khuzestan province as an instance of propaganda against the regime. According to the source, the court also used some published notes by Mr. Siyabi on Telegram channels and his communication with other citizens on these channels as instances of forming or managing an illegal group and membership in illegal groups. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40466'> The 10th branch of the appeal court of Ardebil province presided by Sasan Balakhani and advisor Ebrahim Movaghar sentenced the Jiral Park assembly’s 12 arrested citizens to the sum of 36 months in prison and 888 lashes. According to the ruling, Hossein Balakhani, Mostafa Parvin Joda, Morteza Parvin Joda, Mojtaba Parvin Joda, Hamed Heidari Baris, Mohammad Jolani Ojagh, Parviz Siyabi Garjan, Sobhan Bakhshi, Mehdi Houshmand, Bahman Kheirjoo, Asgar Akbarzadeh Khezrabadi, and Sajjad Jolani Ojagh were each sentenced to three months in prison and 74 lashes on the charge of disrupting public order. The court cleared them of the charge of disobeying law enforcement officers. The ruling has suspended the prison and flogging sentence of these 12 individuals for one year. An image of the ruling by the 10th branch of the appeal court of Ardebil province is presented in the “Supporting Evidence” section of this page. </coverage-outsourcing>