Morteza Fakouri

Morteza Fakouri is from Torbate-Jam. He was arrested on the charge of cooperation with the groups that the Islamic Republic's intelligence and judiciary deem "terrorists".

• <coverage-outsourcing id='58659'> <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='58741'> <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='58679'> <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='59073'> <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='58843'> <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='58683'> <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='58689'> In a statement, United For Iran condemned recent executions of Baloch political prisoners and warned about the possibility of executing three other prisoners. Abdulhamid Mirbalochzehi, Hamid Rast Bala, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandarzehi are among the executed prisoners and Amanollah Baluchi (also known as Amin Mirbalochzehi), Abdolrahim Kouhi and Javid Dehghan Khold are also under the threat of execution. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='58744'> 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. </coverage-outsourcing>