Jafar Esmaeilzadeh

Jafar Esmaeilzadeh is a martial arts instructor and civil rights activist in Tabriz. In recent years he and his son Milad Esmaeilzadeh have been summoned, arrested, and incarcerated.

<coverage-outsourcing id='40977'> According to an IPA source, Jafar Esmaeilzadeh and his son Milad were summoned to the public and revolutionary prosecutor of Tabriz. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40978'> According to documents that Atlas has received, Jafar Esmaeilzadeh and his son Milad were each sentenced to six months in prison by the first branch of the revolutionary court of Tabriz presided by Judge Davoud Hamlbar. They were charged with propaganda against the state in accordance with article 500 of the Islamic Penal Code. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40981'> According to an IPA source, Jafar Esmaeilzadeh and Milad Esmaeilzadeh was released from Tabriz Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40982'> According to an IPA source, Jafar Esmaeilzadeh and Milad Esmaeilzadeh were released from Tabriz Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40983'> Jafar Esmaeilzadeh was arrested. According to an IPA source, agents of the Information Ministry office of Tabriz arrested Jafar Esmaeilzadeh in front of his house and then searched his home and confiscated his cellphone and his son’s. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40984'> According to sources, Jafar Esmaeilzadeh was transferred from Information Ministry holding to ward three of the Tabriz Central Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='40985'> An IPA source reported that after two months since his arrest, Jafar Esmaeilzadeh is still awaiting a decision in Tabriz Prison. The source added that although a month has passed since a 2.5 billion rials bail was set, the judge at the second branch of the public and revolutionary prosecutor’s office keeps making excuses and refuses to accept their bail money and order his release. </coverage-outsourcing>