Ghasem Bodi Bonab

Ghasem Bodi Bonab is an attorney at law and a member of the East Azarbaijan Bar Association. He was arrested along with a group of attorneys as members of the Human Rights Committee of the Bar Association of the province after forming a committee to defend the arrested protesters of the 2022 nationwide uprsing.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='42934'> Sina Yousefi and Ghasem Bodi were arrested in Tabriz and transferred to the temporary prisoners' ward of Tabriz Prison. According to an IPA source, the two human rights lawyers were arrested after the formation of the committee to defend the nationwide uprising detainees at the Human Rights Committee of the Bar Association of East Azarbaijan province. Sina Yousefi is the vice president of the Human Rights Committee of the East Azarbaijan Bar Association and Ghasem Bodi, is a member of the committee. The two were arrested during the nationwide uprising in Iran triggered by the murder of Mahsa Amini. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42936'> Ghasem Bodi went on a hunger strike in Tabriz Prison. According to an IPA source, he went on hunger strike in protest of continued arrest and indecision in prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42938'> Ghasem Bodi was transferred to solitary confinement in Tabriz Prison for continuing his hunger strike. According to an IPA source, he has been denied family visits in prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='43961'> Ghasem Bodi was sentenced to prison. according to an IPA source, he was faced with three separate cases and was sentenced to prison, fines, and social restrictions in two of them, and in the third one he has been charged with Moharebeh (waging war against God). Sources reported that the first branch of the revolutionary court of Tabriz sentenced Ghasem Bodi to five months in prison and two years ban from leaving the country and confiscation of his laptop and cell phone on the charge of propaganda against the state. IPA sources also reported that the sentence was confirmed by the appeal court and that he was also sentenced to pay eighty million rials in fines changed from 91 days in prison for inciting violence to undermine national security. Sources reported that in the third case, he has been charged with Moharebeh for being a member of the committee to defend nationwide uprising detainees at the East Azarbaijan Bar Association. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='43514'> <reference source=''> Ghasem Bodi was released from Tabriz Prison on a bail of 2 billion rials. IPA sources reported that while he was in prison, he was held among the general population and assaulted by Rezazadeh, the interior manager of Tabriz Prison. The source said that his family was threatened by the security forces and because of that he went on a hunger strike for three days in late October in protest of the increasing threats against his family and his continued arrest. After release from Prison, Mr. Bodi was forced under pressure from the security agencies to resign from the university where he taught and step down as the chairman of the bookkeepers association of East Azarbaijan province. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46079'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/ghasem_bodi/status/1616803647756566529'> Ghasem Bodi filed complaints for illegal arrest and false reports against the chief of the first branch of Tabriz court Davoud Hamlbar Mojarrad, the investigator at branch 7 of public and revolutionary prosecution Hadi Ghafourian, and former assistant prosecutor at branch 11 of sentence enforcement and current investigator and branch 24 of public and revolutionary prosecution of Tabriz. However, Mohammad Amin Ghadirinasab, the investigator at Branch 11 of the public and revolutionary prosecution of Tehran's 28th District issued an order of non-suit for those judicial authorities. Ghasem Bodi published the final decision of the prosecution on his Twitter page and wrote: > This is the result of filing a lawsuit against security judges. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46080'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/ghasem_bodi/status/1617092351012311040'> The law enforcement court of Sardaftaran and Daftaryaran in East Azarbaijan province voted to disqualify Ghasem Bodi from issuing marriage licenses. Mr. Bodi published the indictment on Twitter and announced that he was previously removed as the president of the wedding officiants of East Azarbaijan province and now the security and judicial authorities are trying to revoke his liscence as well. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50470'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CqtcrIjM4n6/'> In a post on Instagram, Ghasem Baadi Banab described his experience in Tabriz Prison. His record mentions inhuman conditions and treatment of prisoners, torture, and humiliation of prisoners by the prison, judiciary, and security authorities. Part 1: > We were in room 5 of (special) ward 17 in Tabriz Prison. Nobody was allowed to talk to us. Denied phone calls and family visits. There were never more than five or six cellmates in the room and people were brought here when solitary cells were full...The prison warden, Prisons Organization director, prison prosecutor, judge, and security officials would all visit and humiliate the prisoners. On the cold nights of September and October 2022 in Tabriz, there were no heaters and all the windows were open. All four cellmates caught the flu. When we'd ask for a heater, they'd say it's fine, enjoy the chill. They brought in a young man born in 1998 for participating in the protests. In one of the official visits, the young man aggressively complained about the bad conditions of the room. The officials left. The next morning they took the young man somewhere unknown. Around 4 pm they brought him back while his whole body, head, face, and chest were covered in blood. They brought him back with the help of a few prisoners from the general population. He couldn't speak or move. He just shivered and could barely call out for his mother. Part 2: > We started removing his bloody clothes with three of the cellmates (the clothes were stuck to his body at this point and removing them was painful). He was barely conscious. He could neither talk nor walk nor eat. The three of us would hold him up for the bathroom. He couldn't sit and had to lie down. when he'd lie down he'd start bleeding again. We asked for help but the authorities said he is ok. He should thank God he's alive. He was ashamed of asking for help to go to the bathroom. He insisted he could do it. We waited in front of the bathroom. When he tried to get up, he slipped and his head hit the wall. I started yelling and asking the authorities to send him to a hospital. They refused and sent him to the infirmary. They gave him an ointment and a painkiller. But he was getting worse by the minute. He was whipped with a cable that day. Eventually, two days later we were able to get the prison authorities to take him to a hospital. He was hospitalized for two days. He said the doctors told him that the cable blows had clotted blood in some of his arteries and if he hadn't been transferred to the hospital he could have most likely had a heart attack or a brain aneurysm. We asked him to sue the people responsible. He did, but the authorities told his family that if he drops the suit, they will compensate him in the sentencing. So he dropped his lawsuit. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50474'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CqyE464spZj/'> In a post on Instagram, Ghasem Baadi Banab described his experience in Tabriz Prison. His record mentions inhuman conditions and treatment of prisoners, torture, and humiliation of prisoners by the prison, judiciary, and security authorities. Part 1: "I was taken to prison in handcuffs by the order of the judge at 8 pm....[After changing clothes and taking photos] We went to ward 17 room 1. It was about 20sqm with three rows of triple bunk beds and around 25 prisoners convicted of robbery, scam, bribery, and some for debt. As we entered some of the prisoners started throwing profanities at us and the ward reps began to mock us. The guards came and asked us to go with them to take our vaccines. We resisted but the next day they gave us two shots and they never told us what they were. We went back but there was no food and they had taken our money. A prisoner fed us... At night they kept the light on so we couldn't sleep. In the morning they counted us and then brought the breakfast. The prison only provided hot water and we had to buy tea ourselves...Then they asked for me from room 37 (Intelligence Ministry room)... The interrogator started asking about my family and parents and work and education. They let me go back after an hour and a half. Part 2: > After entering ward 17, the interior prison director named Rezazadeh, a man about 50 years old with some scars on his face, called me and started cursing at me and uttered some vulgar sexual things and said you're not allowed to talk to anyone, Then he dragged me out of the ward and started punching me in the back. I couldn't do anything. In the end, he told the ward rep to throw me in my room and that I shouldn't talk to anybody. They took me to room 5. Sina was already there. I felt pain in my heart from the blows so I laid down... they took me to the doctor and they took a scan and said I had a heart episode. I asked to go to a doctor but they said we'll just give you a painkiller. I still have heart pain because of that slight stroke to this day. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50558'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/CrExGeBttCZ/'> In another post on Instagram, Ghasem Baadi Banab described his experience in Tabriz Prison. His record mentions inhuman conditions and treatment of prisoners, lack of access to medical treatment, and the prosecutor general Babak Mahboub Alilou's apathy: > They brought an 18-year-old boy in room 5... there were two others in that room, both were being denied phone calls and family visits...He described that once in early September 2022, he was arrested by the Basij and spent a night under humiliating torture; Repeatedly getting kicked, baton blows, and sexual profanities. He didn't know where they took him but they released him the next day. He was again arrested by the Baisj in mid-September and they delivered him to IRGC Intelligence. He didn't know where it was. They didn't take him to any judicial authority and didn't charge him. After 10 days he was transferred to room 5. He had convulsions from childhood that would occur when he was under psychological or physical pressure. Even his family didn't know where he was until one prisoner secretly informed his family of his whereabouts and his health. They requested a medical examination but no one answered them. He was kept in prison without any knowledge of his judicial case for two months. In a room with a murder suspect and two drug smuggling suspects who did drugs all day. Interestingly, drugs were easy to find in prison, easier than outside. When I was on hunger strike Prosecutor General Babak Mahboub Alilou offered me release from prison if I agree to not contact the media, and I said I don't know what's going on outside the prison, but if you have any honor and dignity you shouldn't keep a young man in these conditions. He promised to follow up on his case to release him but didn't. He has been released on heavy bail and despite receiving the pardon, they are not giving back his bail money. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='50814'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/ghasem_bodi/status/1653352447526461442'> Ghasem Bodi Bonab was summoned to serve his sentence even though his case was declared closed previously. He wrote in a tweet: > One of the sentences against me is 80 million rials in fines and 91 days suspended prison sentence. I paid the fine and they said the case is closed. The bail is being kept illegally and I received an arrest notice today for the same case. The image of the summon and print of the case condition being closed are attached in the Supporting Evidence section of this page. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>