Mehdi Koukhian

He is the admin of "Shahr'E Khabar" Telegram channel which mainly publishes reports about Malekan city

<coverage-outsourcing id='10960'> Mehdi Koukhian and Abbas Valizadeh were arrested in Malekan </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10961'> Mehdi Koukhian was tried and sentenced to one year in prison by judge Davarnia of Maragheh's Revolutionary Court on the charge of "propaganda against the regime". Abbas Valizadeh was also tried and sentenced to eight years in prison in the same court on the charges of "insulting the supreme leader", and "blasphemy". According to Harana, the two's activities on social media has been cited as examples for these crimes </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10962'> According to Harana, Mehdi Koukhian was severely tortured during the time he was arrested and detained. According to this report, he was denied medical treatment after his transfer to Maragheh Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10963'> He went on a hunger strike in protest to "being denied medical treatment" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10964'> According to Harana, he was transferred to Maragheh Prison's quarantine </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10965'> Mehdi Koukhian was released on a 40 million toman bail and Abbas Valizadeh on 100 million toman bail </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10966'> The appeal court confirmed the one-year prison sentence of Mehdi Koukhian and acquitted Abbas Valizadeh from the charge of "insulting the supreme leader". This court also disqualified the revolutionary court and sent the "blasphemy" case to the public court for rulling </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10967'> He was arrested once again </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10968'> He was tried and sentenced to another year in prison by Judge Davarnia for the charges of "propaganda against the regime", and "membership in Pan-Turkish groups" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10969'> He got a temporary leave </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10970'> He returned to prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10971'> According to Maf News, after resisting his exile to Tabriz Prison, he was battered and violently transferred to this prison by prison guards. According to this report, after Tabriz Prison refused to accept him, he was returned to Maragheh Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10972'> He was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10973'> According to his Facebook page status update, he was released on this day. His bail has been set for 20 million tomans </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10955'> He was summoned to the Public Security Police. The summon is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10956'> Mehdi Koukhian and Karim Chaychian were arrested. According to Atlas, these two were arrested in connection with activities of a local Telegram channel. It is said that the release of an audio file containing a recorded conversation between Karim Chaychian and Salman Khodadadi, a former revolutionary guard commander and currrent member of congress was the main cause for their arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11112'> After being transferred to Maragheh prison, Mehdi Koukhian and Karim Chaychian started their hunger strike by sewing their mouths shut. According to Harana, they have insisted on their innocence and refused to pay their bail. According to this report, Salman Khodadadi, congressman from Malekan, Farhad Narimanpour, the mayor of this city, and the city council of Malekan are among the plaintiffs of this case </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11543'> Human Rights Activists in Iran group issued a statement inviting "the judicial authorities to act independently from security institutions" and while emphasizing the need to transfer prisoners on hunger strike - particularly Arash Sadeghi - to medical centers, they asked for opening the door to negotiation with the prisoners on strike, namely Ali Shariati, Saeed Shariati, Hassan Rastegari, Nezar Zaka, Mohammad Reza Nekounam, and Mehdi Koukhian </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11730'> Harana reported that he has been transferred to Tabriz Revolutionary guard lock up and is under pressure to break his huger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11970'> Asma Jahangir, special human rights rapporteur of the United Nations for Iran, along with Michael Forst, special rapporteur for human rights defenders, and Roland Adjovi, the special rapporteur to the UN for arbitrary arrests, in a statement, expressed concern regarding the long hunger strike, of Arash Sadeghi, Ali Shariati, Saeed Shirazi, Mohammad Reza Nekounam, Hassan Rastegari Majd, and Nizar Zakka, and warned that it may lead to death. These three United Nations special rapporteurs, while raising alarm over the dire condition of some of the political and ideological prisoners on hunger strike in Iran, asked the Iranian government for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners arrested arbitrarily. According to Zamaneh, this statement underlined the special concern for those prisoners who were arrested because of peaceful efforts to defend and expand human rights in Iran </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12414'> According to Harana, after ending their hunger strike, Mehdi Koukhian and Sajjad Afrouzian were transferred to Tabriz Revolutionary guard lock up and their bail was set. Sajjad Afrouzian's bail is set for 50 million tomans. Accorsing to this report, the interrogators at Revolutionary guard lock up had battered Mehdi Koukhian and removed the stitches with which he had sewn his mouth shut, but he had continued his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21347'> HRANA reported that Mehdi Kouchian was sentenced to 18 months in prison on the charge of "propaganda against the system" by judge Mehdi Davarnia </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25172'> He was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='26072'> He ended his hunger strike </coverage-outsourcing>