Mostafa Tajzadeh

<p>Mostafa Tajzadeh is a political activist in Tehran. He is a member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization of Iran, former Deputy Interior Minister during the terms of Abdollah Nouri and Mousavi Lari. Deputy Culture Minister for International Affairs during Mohammad Khatami’s presidency.</p>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='2132'> He was arrested one day after the elections in 2009. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2133'> He participated in the fourth session of group trials, presided by Judge Salavati. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2134'> His first trial proceedings were held in Branch 15 of Tehran’s General and Revolutionary Court. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2135'> His second trial proceedings were held in Branch 15 of Tehran’s General and Revolutionary Court. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2136'> He was convicted of “assembly and collusion against national security” and sentenced to six years imprisonment based on clauses 610 and 500 of the Islamic Penal Code. His sentence also included a 10 year ban on any activities involved with the press or political parties based on clause 19 of the Islamic Penal Code. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2138'> He was sentenced to one additional year in prison on the charge of “Insulting the Supreme Leader.” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='5423'> It was reported that he was sentenced to more time in prison. The Prosecutor claimed that this was due to his late return to prison from furlough. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40675'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfw0YYvD7gv/'> According to HRANA, he was arrested by IRGC agents and transferred to Ward 2-A of Evin. Mr. Tajzadeh's wife, Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour, announced this news by publishing a video on her Instagram page, saying that 15 security officers arrested Mostafa Tajzadeh while he was not at home and confiscated his laptop. Mohtashamipour has added in this video that only minutes after Tajzadeh's arrest, she was informed by an unknown phone that "her husband is a guest of the prosecution". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='40672'> <reference source='https://cutt.ly/4LIRR9H'> Amir Hosseinabadi, Mostafa Tajzadeh's lawyer, told ILNA about the lack of access to his client's file. Hosseinabadi told ILNA that he was prevented from meeting with Tajzadeh. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='41164'> <reference source='https://cutt.ly/0Z63bP4'> Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour said in an interview with Jamaran website that her husband informed their daughter in a phone call that he has been locked up in solitary cell 2-A of Evin prison since his arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42578'> <reference source='https://twitter.com/HoushangPourba1/status/1579842870689005568'> Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Abolghasem Salavati, sentenced Mostafa Tajzadeh to a total of eight years in prison. Houshang Pourbabaei, the lawyer of Mostafa Tajzadeh, wrote in a tweet that the court sentenced his client to five years on the charge of assembly and conspiracy to act against national security, two years on the charge of spreading lies and one year on the charge of propaganda against the state. Mr. Pourbabaei wrote in this tweet that this sentence has been finalized due to lack of appeal and is being enforced. After applying Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, five years from this sentence can be enforced. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='48318'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3mnp2Ne'> According to IranWire, more than 10 members of the security and protection staff, along with some officials of Evin prison, stormed into the cell where Mostafa Tajzadeh, Saeed Madani, Hossein Razzagh and Mohammad Reza Jalaipour are kept, and searched their personal belongings while insulting them. According to the report of IranWire, their cell is monitored 24 hours a day through cameras belonging to the Ministry of Intelligence and security institutions of the Islamic Republic. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58756'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/35vvtfh4'> According to IranWire, following the announcement of the boycott of the elections and the release of interviews from inside the prison, he will continue his imprisonment in isolation and separately from other prisoners until further notice. It is stated in this report that he has been denied the right to make phone calls. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58759'> <reference source='https://t.me/emtedadnet/86575'> Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour, the wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, wrote that he is facing problems such as heart disease, neck and back problems, and according to the doctors, he should be under the supervision of a doctor. She said that her husband has served a third of his five-year prison sentence and can take leave according to the law. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58764'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/3u4w4vdc'> He was summoned by the first branch of the Evin Prosecutor's Office on charges of assembly and collusion to act against national security and propaganda against the system. According to IranWire, Mr. Tajzadeh has announced that he refused to receive this summons and will not appear in this branch or in any court. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>