Hakim Azim Gorgij

Hakim Azim Gorgij is a resident of Golestan province. He was sentenced to death for "waging war against Islamic ruler" through "membership in the Hezal-Furqan Salafi group," and "being a member of Iran's Sunni National Solidarity Front."

• <coverage-outsourcing id='34068'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/4bBVb8c'> At least 13 citizens of Golestan and Khorasan Razavi provinces were arrested by intelligence agents. 9 of these people named Hamid Rast Bala, Farhad Shakeri, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Isa Eidmohammadi, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Malek Ali Fadainasab, were accused of being members of "Ansaral-Furqan and Sunni National Solidarity Front of Iran," and 4 others named Morteza Fakouri, Abdolbaset Avarsan, Mohammad Reza Sheikh Ahmadi and Hossein Varasteh Soleimani are accused of "membership in the Salafi group of ISIS". IranWire announced that most of these people were arrested on this date. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34073'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-26088/'> He was transferred from solitary confinement in Mashhad Intelligence Detention Center to Vakil Abad Prison in this city. According to the report of HRANA, during the interrogation of the case, Hamid Rast Bala, Farhad Shakeri, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Isa Eid Mohammadi, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Malek Ali Fadai Nasab, Morteza Fakouri, Abdolbaset Avarsan, Mohammad Reza Sheikh Ahmadi, and Hossein Varasteh Soleimani were subjected to "physical, sexual, and mental torture", and during the interrogation process, the intelligence agents assaulted them with stun guns, pepper spray on their genitals, and threatened to arrest and rape their families. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34084'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-26088/'> According to HRANA, Judge Mahmoud Davoudabadi, head of the first branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, sentenced Hamid Rast Bala, Farhad Shakeri, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Isa Eidmohammadi, Taj Mohammad Khormali, Hakim Azim Gorgij, and Abdolrahman Gorgij for the charge of "waging war against Islamic ruler through membership in the Salafist group Hezbol-Furqan and membership in the Sunni National Solidarity Front of Iran." Based on this report, all the defendants were deprived of access to a lawyer of their choosing and also sufficient time to present their defense. Also, according to the letter provided to HRANA, the security apparatus forced them to confess against themselves by applying "torture"; The accused's letters to the judicial authorities regarding forced confessions (written and in front of the camera) have remained fruitless and the authorities have not been responsive. In HRANA's report, the names of four other prisoners, Hossein Varasteh Soleimani, Morteza Fakouri, Abdolbaset Avarsan, and Mohammad Reza Sheikh Ahmadi, are also mentioned. Soleimani was sentenced to death for membership in ISIS and the other three have been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Later, IranWire wrote that Abdollah Mazraeh was also sentenced to death in this court on charges of "waging war against Islamic ruler through membership in the Salafist group Hezbol-Furqan and membership in the Sunni National Solidarity Front of Iran." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58911'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/4bBVb8c'> According to IranWire, the Supreme Court rejected the death sentence of Isa Eidmohammadi, Farhad Shakeri, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, and Abdolrahman Gorgij, and by referring it to another branch of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court, demanded a retrial of their case. HRANA announced that this violation of the ruling was done by the 41st branch of the Supreme Court headed by Judge Ali Razini. In HRANA news, the name of Malek Ali Fadaei Nasab is also mentioned along with five other defendants. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58906'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/4bBVb8c'> According to IranWire, they were sent on leave. In the IranWire report, which quotes Danyal Babayani, journalist and director of Tohra Human Rights Organization, it is not clear which of the defendants were sent on leave. Based on the content of the report, IPA has identified these people as Farhad Shakeri, Isa Eid Mohammadi, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, and Taj Mohammad Khormali. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='59069'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-26062/'> HRANA published a statement of dissatisfaction and complaint written by Mr. Rast Bala. In this letter, he complains about the long-pending and unconcluded legal process of his case, his five years of detention, deprivation of the right to apply for bail and temporary release despite his extremely long detention period, being denied the right to contact his family for several months during his detention, beatings and physical torture, and more. In a part of the letter, he refers to details of the interrogation period and how the security officials forced him, under pressure, to give televised confessions: > They tortured us in solitary confinement for about 10 months to obtain false confessions. Whipping and tasing were their way of greeting and hosting many of us, the Sunni political prisoners. They even sexually abused some of us by spraying pepper spray on our genitals and anuses. They threatened to detain, torture, assassinate, and rape our families. They wanted us to write confessions that they could use to make accusations against us. Many of us lost mental balance due to the torture, and were willing to accept any accusation that was leveled against us, just to get rid of the suffering they made us bear. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58849'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-26088/'> HRANA wrote that Judge Hassan Heydari was the first investigator of the cases of Hamid Rast Bala, Farhad Shakeri, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Isa Eid Mohammadi, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Taj Mohammad Khormali, Abdolrahman Gorgij, Malek Ali Fadai Nasab, Morteza Fakouri, Abdolbaset Avarsan, Mohammad Reza Sheikh Ahmadi, and Hossein Varasteh Soleimani, and the second investigator of these cases was Judge Bazargan Manesh. HRANA also added that these people have been accused of being members of the "Furqan Party" group, while according to them, the said group was active in Iran from 1992 to 1997, and all of them were on average 10 to 12 years old during these years. Based on additional news from various news sources and the evidence, the above also applies to the case of Abdollah Mazrae (Abdolhasan Mazrae). </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34092'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-28139/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Hamid Rast Bala, Kabir Saadat Jahani, and Mohammad Ali Arayesh, three Baluch Sunni prisoners, were executed this morning in Mashhad Prison. There are no credible reports available on decisions made at the Supreme Court about this case. However, it appears that the Supreme Court has recently confirmed the three executed prisoners' death sentences. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58901'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/4bBVb8c'> The trial was reconvened under Judge Amani. While announcing this news, IranWire announced that after the ruling was struck down in the Supreme Court of the country, there was a gap of more than three years until the case was referred to a branch of the same rank. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58839'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-917/'> 9 of the Sunni prisoners imprisoned in Ward 6/1 of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, named Farhad Shakeri, Hossein Varasteh Soleimani, Abdolhossein Mazraeh, Abdolbaset Avarsan, Isa Eid Mohammadi, Hadi Barveh'ei, Mohammad Reza Sheikh Ahmadi, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, and Abdolrahman Gorgij wrote a letter addressed to the UN officials, asking them to follow up on their case. These prisoners protested against the oppression and deprivations they suffered in their trial process and in a part of their letter, while referring to physical and psychological tortures to obtain forced confessions, they also reported the pressure on their family members. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='46277'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/letters/a-920/'> In a letter to the UN Secretary-General and the UN special human rights rapporteur on Iranian affairs, eight Sunni prisoners imprisoned in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad demanded that they take action regarding the "oppressive rulings" of the courts of the Islamic Republic against them. This letter, which was published by HRANA, was signed by Issa Eid Mohammadi, Farhad Shakeri, Habib Pirmohammadi, Abdolbaset Avarsan, Abdolhakim Azim Gorgij, Mohammad Reza Sheikh Ahmadi, Abdolhossein Farahan, and Abdolrahman Gorgij and wrote: > When we wrote a complaint for the cruel death sentences, if a decisive action was taken by the UN communities, today we would not see that other families were grieving. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58890'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-46717/'> According to HRANA, after a retrial, the fourth branch of the Revolutionary Court of Mashhad, headed by Judge Ahmadian Salami, issued the death sentence for Malek Ali Fadai Nasab, Farhad Shakeri, Isa Eidmohammadi, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, and Taj Mohammad Khormali. Based on this report, after the announcement of the verdicts, Farhad Shakeri and Abdolrahman Gorgij went on a hunger strike to protest the death sentence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58771'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/4bBVb8c'> Farhad Shakeri, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, and Isa Eid Mohammadi announced in a letter that the prison officers and the forces of the Ministry of Intelligence are harassing them. IranWire wrote that they wrote in this letter that "because in May, while going to the court session, the prison officers physically searched these 4 citizens and prevented them from taking the defense papers they had prepared with them, and they resisted, now they have been summoned to the Disciplinary Council to give them fingerprints 'for no reason'." Based on this news, the defendants of this case were denied access to a lawyer of their choosing, at least in the first trial, and even now, the prevention of taking the defense papers and summoning them to the disciplinary council shows that the security agents and the officials are trying to disrupt their trial. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58885'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3QJWsSK'> Sunni News wrote that last week, the clerk of the court personally brought the notification sheet to the prison inconspicuously and summoned the six defendants of this case who have been sentenced to death again and said "Your sentence is death and you must sign the sheet." And when these people asked to read the paper before signing, they were not given permission. Sunni News further wrote that the accused did not sign any papers. Based on this report, in the court session that led to the re-issuance of the death sentence, it was clearly stated that "Farhad Shakeri has not confessed so far, so he must be tortured more to confess." In this report, Mr. Shakri is quoted as saying, "During the court hearings, when I spoke, everyone talks to each other so that my voice cannot be heard. In a part of the case, it is stated that Farhad Shakeri himself said that I was not tortured at all, while the most terrible and cruel tortures were only applied to me (with electric cables, propeller belts, pepper spray, etc.) which are only some of the tortures I suffered. I was not even allowed a phone call with my family so that all the tortures would be kept secret and not be reported anywhere. That's why I went on [hunger] strike, which lasted 4 months and 17 days, I had gone down from 85 kilos to 37 kilos. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58880'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-46717/'> HRANA wrote that the cases of Malek Ali Fadai Nasab, Farhad Shakeri, Isa Eid Mohammadi, Hakim Azim Gorgij, Abdolrahman Gorgij, and Taj Mohammad Khormali are being processed by the 39th branch of the Supreme Court. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>