Saeed Naghdi

He was arrested in the collective arrest of Telegram channel managers close to reformists in 2017

• <coverage-outsourcing id='15118'> Several managers of Telegram channels close to the Rouhani administration were arrested in March, 2017. Although the arrests were met with reactions from Hassan Rouhani, his ministers, members of parliament, personalities and reformists or justice seeking groups, and in some cases the harsh clash between government media and the judiciary-but both the judiciary and the government have kept from revealing information about the where abouts and condition of the arrested.The following week, IPA succeeded in finding the identities of 9 of the arrested individuals: Ali Ahmadnia, Saeed Naghdi, Heydar Valizadeh,Mojtaba Bagheri, Mehdi Salehi, Nima Keshvari, Sobhan Jafartash, Mohammad Javad Jamshidi, and Sayed Afrouzi. According to informed sources the arrested are in ward 2 A of Evin prison. Opinions for and against these collective arrests whose names were not revealed until a month after the arrests, has prevented the proper record keeping in this case and IPA has relied on several initial documents </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13855'> According to Amad News, he was arrested on this day </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13854'> Ali Mottahari told ISNA that the minister of Intelligence should be held accountable for the arrest of 12 head of Telegram Channels close to the government, also for the manner in which Ehsan Mazandarani was arrested “in an inappropriate condition” which had, in turn, created “doubts” about the presidential elections. He emphasised that, “I request the minister of Intelligence two explain both cases in a convincing manner and enlighten us as to which agency carried out these two acts.” Mottahari, said, in the end, “If the minister of intelligence doesn’t give convincing answers we will, in that case, question and if necessary, seek his impeachment </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16224'> Omidnameh reported that the Intelligence ministry was not involved in the recent arrests. Agents of IRGC Intelligence unit made the arrests under orders from branch 2 of the Culture and Media court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13925'> Omidnameh reported that the Intelligence ministry was not involved in the recent arrests. Agents of IRGC Intelligence unit made the arrests under orders from branch 2 of the Culture and Media court </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13917'> Hesamodin Ashena, Hassan Rouhani’s adviser, in several tweets under the title, “A simple plan from a tricky operation”, using offensive language, condemned the security agencies of the country, who have themselves created a Telegram channels (Omidnews) and then proceeded to arrest those who communicated with that same channel. These accusations were, also, echoed by some of the other media outlets close to Hassan Rouhani, Amad News denied these allegations. In the same period, Massoud Pezeshkan, Mohammad Sadeghi, Jafar Imanabadi, and a great number of reformists announced their opposition to these arrests. According to reports that were published months afterwards, these arrests had nothing to do with the website or channel of Amad News </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13918'> The International Federation of Journalists published a statement, condemned the arrest of Hengameh Shahidi, Morad Saghafi, Ehsan Mazandarani, and the Telegram channels activists and demanded their release expressing sadness over how the silencing of public forums has become an organizational routine for the regime in Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16235'> According to numerous reports that were published in this month, along with other accused prisoner in this case, he has been deprived of a lawyer </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16230'> The attorney for Ali Mojtahedzadeh told ILNA that despite the request of the families of Bagheri and Keshvari to represent them, he has been unable to visit the two individuals. He, also, added, that the case is supposed to be heard in 2017. Mostafa Turk Hamadani, also, told this news agency, that despite the end of initial investigation and the submission of the file to the court, “the honorable head of the judiciary” has not issued his permit to defend as a lawyer, “and this act of the judicial authority goes against the law” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16241'> Ali Mojtahedzadeh told Jamaran that according to the claims of the families four of the accused prisoners, of this case, are on hunger strike. Including Mr. Keshvari and Bagheri. He also confirmed, “These are not kids who don’t follow the regime and the state, and as far as I know about their families, I can’t believe that they have acted against the interest of the state... the issues they mention are not accusations of acting against the law but rather stemming from political rivalry and differences” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16311'> According to ILNA, the spokesperson for the judiciary denied that the Telegram channel managers had gone on a hunger strike and said, “this is a rumor. If anyone has something reasonable to say then his case is pursued and investigated” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16318'> Ali Mojtahedzadeh told ILNA that he has not, yet, met with his attorneys, Mojtaba Bagheri is on hunger strike, Saeed Naghdi has halted his strike, Nima Keshvari’s family don’t have any news of him, the court has accepted him as the lawyer of only two individuals, because according to the opinion of the court, “it is possible that they have conflicts with one another, and they may not share the same interests”, “the legal capability for solving problems exists inside” and the families don’t need, in anyway, “for any reason to look to the outside” and that “the publication of these news items in media outlets has never been acceptable” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16344'> The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, reported that the managers of the Telegram channels who were holding a hunger strike, have been put under pressure to deny the news. “Deny this or it will cost you much.” According to a report of the Campaign, based on the claims of an informed source, “at least until the 24 day of June, (the day the news was denied by Mohseni Ejei) four of these media activists (Sobhan Jafartash, Javad Jamshidi, Nima Keshvari, and Saeed Naghdi) were on hunger strike” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16819'> According to ILNA, Mohammad Sadeghi in a session of the parliament, told the minister of the judiciary, that the case of the managers of Telegram channels breaks 35 laws meant to protect prisoners and provide a fair trial, such as the right to an attorney, who were denied access sometimes after having been accepted by the judge and introduced to the prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='16855'> According to ILNA, some of the families of the arrested in this case met with Massoud Pezeshkan, the deputy head of the parliament. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='17384'> Ali Mojtahedzadeh told ILNA that Bagheri, Naghdi, and Jamshidi, were released on a 500 million toman bail. Nima Keshvari will be released later and the family of Sobhan Jafartash are trying to meet the bail. According to news published on social media sites, Ali Ahmadnia’s family, is also trying to procure his bail money. In the weeks that followed all of those arrested in this case were released </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18378'> The court hearing for the head’s of Telegram channels took place with judge Salavati presiding. In this hearing the charges against Naghdi and Bagheri were reviewed. Further hearings were held in the days that followed </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18766'> According to ILNA, judge Salavati sentenced Keshvari and Ahmadnia to five years in prison, Naghdi and Jamshidi to four years in prison, Jafaritash to three years in prison and Bagheri to two years in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18604'> According to Mehr news, the spokesperson for the judiciary, told, at its press conference, about the heads of Telegram channels, “Until now several cases have been filed. One case has 14 individuals who were tried and sentenced, the accused have been sentenced in a range of 91 days to five years incarceration. One case had eight individuals, their trial was held, their hearing was finished and their last defense heard, but until last week, when I asked, their verdict had not been issued” </coverage-outsourcing>