Sina Ghanbari

Sina Ghanbari was arrested during nationwide protests in January 2018 and died a few days later in Evin prison. Some other protesters were also killed in prisons. A year after, His mother said that her son had been killed in Evin prison and she had been under pressure not to talk about his son's murder

• <coverage-outsourcing id='21308'> He was arrested by the police at one of the Tehran metro stations during the nationwide protests in January 2018 and transferred to Evin Prison. According to MP Ali Reza Rahimi, he wrote that he is not addicted to any drugs in the entry form of Evin prison. According to Tabnak, He was charged with "disturbing public order" and "collusion and planning against national security.” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21311'> According to a report from the follow-up Committee of detainees in January 2018, which was published quoting "two witnesses", Sina Ghanbari was interrogated on this date, and he told his roommates that he was beaten and his body was bruised </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21305'> Concurrent with the December 2017 widespread protests, SIna Ghanbari died in a quarantine ward of Evin Prison. His and a number of other protestors’ death or murder in the detention centers caused a lot of protests. In this regard, there were reports of immethodical provision of methadone tablets or forcing detainees to use them. Officials in the Iranian government announced that Mr. Ghanbari had not been arrested in the political protests and had committed suicide in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21309'> Fars News Agency claimed that his grandfather and uncles had written a letter to the "people and the leadership" stressing on the Opposition media's intention to take advantage of Sina Ghanbari's death by "spreading rumors", and for this reason, they had canceled the funeral on January 12. Earlier, Fars news agency along with Officials of the Prisons Organization and the Judiciary had claimed that Sina Ghanbari was arrested on drug charges, and he was a smuggler. Fars news agency's claims are less cited because It's known as a government news agency and has consistently published fake information about political prisoners. After the news of Sina Ghanbari's death subsided, such statements and claims by government officials diminished. Similar allegations were made against other victims of the January 2018 protests </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21306'> A number of parliamentarians visited parts of Evin Prison, including ward 209. According to the conversation between media and representatives, they have also seen the place and footage of Sina Ghanbari's "suicide". Mohammad Javad Fathi told ISNA: > Apparently, using a garbage nylon and knitting it in one of the bathrooms in ward 4, according to forensics examiner, the person has committed suicide and we saw the suicide footage as well. Seemingly the person has committed suicide, but a judicial process has to be completed . A few days later, member of parliament Alireza Rahimi shared on Social media that there is no video footage of Sina Ghanbari’s suicide. Rather, the images have to do with a prisoner (named Sina Ghanbari) entering the prison washroom facility while wearing a white undershirt and blue slippers, and carrying a large crumpled plastic bag, after which the door closes behind him. Approximately two hours later, another prisoner is said to have opened the washroom door to be confronted with a lifeless body lying on the floor. According to Alireza Rahimi’s statements, which contradict previous reports by regime officials and sources close to national security forces, Mr Ghanbari was arrested at a Tehran Metro Station during the large-scale citizen uprising taking place on January 1st 2018 </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21310'> After political prisoners and human rights activists indicated on the impossibility of suicide in Evin's toilets, MP Hassan Norouzi announced the closure of the "Evin Prison Visiting Committee" due to "interviews of some members of this committee" and added that Sina Ghanbari committed suicide with Sunlight Moonlight method (In this method, the person ties a rope to his neck, bends his back, hits the jaw, and the spinal cord is quickly amputated) </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23636'> Sina Ghanbari's mother, Fatemeh Malayan Nejad, had a phone interview with the exiled journalist, Masih Alienjad and said that her son was of high morale, was not addicted to drugs and did not commit suicide. He was murdered in Evin prison and she won't forgive herself for the silence she had made in the past year. This audio has been filed in the evidence section </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30376'> <reference source='https://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-46933695'> "The cause of Sina Ghanbari's death is not clear. Some prisoners said Sina had committed suicide, while others said he had died from an overdose. According to one of the prisoners who saw Sina's body, he died of suffocation, which is not clear how he suffocated.", Mahmoud Masoumi, one of Sina Ghanbari's inmates, told BBC Persian in an interview </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>