• <coverage-outsourcing id='12650'> Since January 2012, widespread wall-writings and distribution of protest flyers started in Deal region. The subject of most of these writings was criticizing the regime authorities, including the supreme leader of Iran, and in support of freedom. It appears that the last group of flyers titled "Informing the Public and Fighting Tyranny and the events of 2009" was distributed before the mass arrests in 2014. Although several citizens were arrested, the protests did not cease and continued the following years. According to the reports, Abbas Sadeghpour, Hamid Mazaheri, Mojtaba PourHassan, Mohammad Reza Mobaraki, Mehran Zakinejad, Ehsan Arshadi, Abdollah AliRezanejad, and Hamid Bozorgzadeh, were arrested in 2014 and Mohammad Miri and Ghassem Ghanbari in 2016 all related to the protests in this rural district. Several other citizens were also summoned and interrogated </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12635'> A few days after the arrest of Abbas Sadeghpour, seven other residents of Deal county namely Hamid Mazaheri, Mojtaba Pourhassan, Mohammad Reza Mobaraki, Mehran Zakinejad, Ehsan Arshadi, Abdollah Alirezanejad, and Hamid Bozorgzadeh were also arrested. According to Harana, Mr. Abbaspour was arrested with some political flyers on the Gachsaran-Deal road </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12640'> According to Harana, Abbas Sadeghpour was arrested and sent to Gachsaran Prison to begin his six months prison term. According to the report, The charges brought up against those arrested in Deal region are separated into two categories of public and political, and Mr. Sadeghpour's sentence to six months in prison is for the public charge of owning and keeping equipment for watching satellite TV. More criminal cases have been opened in public court for some of the other arrested individuals </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12645'> Ehsan Arshadi, Abbas MohammadSadeghpour, Mehran Zakinejad, Mohammad Reza Mobaraki, Abdollah AliRezanejad, and Mojtaba PourHassan were each sentenced to one year in prison for the charge of "propaganda against the regime" and two years for "insulting the supreme leader" by the Gachsaran Revolutionary Court presided by substitute judge Yousef Ahmadi. Also, all these citizens received a ban of two years for membership in any political parties or associations. The court invoked the Article 134 and issued a verdict of two years in prison (maximum sentence) and suspended one year from the sentence for a period of time. The final preliminary verdict for these citizens is one year in prison. The preliminary ruling was published by Harana and it is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12655'> According to Harana, his prison sentence began in Gachsaran Prison </coverage-outsourcing>