Hossein Nozari

Hossein Nozari

He is the director of Shargh Govashir Co. He was also involved with the Narenji website and was arrested by IRGC intelligence on charges of acting against national security

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22008'> Several of the cyber activists in Kerman province were arrested and transferred to IRGC Intelligence detention center. Ahmad Ghorbani, Kerman Deputy Prosecutor, announced that the IRGC had arrested 16 "cyber activists related to aliens." At the same time, the Narenji website announced that for some unknown reasons, some of Narenji's writers and technical members named Ali Asghar Honarmand, Abbas Wahidi, Ali Reza Vaziri, Nasim Nikmehr, Maliheh Nakhaei, Mohammad Hossein Mousazadeh and Sarah Sajadpour were arrested by the IRGC. The identity of other detainees remained uncertain for a long time. A while later, the Center for Human Rights announced the identity of some other detainees in a report in which the names of Azam Hakemi, Hossein Nozari, Ehsan Paknejad, Reza Nozari, Mehdi Faryabi, Amir Sadeghpour and Mostafa Pourgharib were mentioned, in addition to the names previously mentioned on the Narenji website </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='2411'> The Kerman office of the Iranian state television broadcasted a video clip of the arrested bloggers. In this film, several men are shown in prison uniforms, with their hands cuffed from the back and facing the wall. In the same video, Mr. Movahed, the Kerman prosecutor, stated that these people were "involved with spyware" and were "trying to softly overthrow the Islamic Republic" </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22004'> َAli Tavakoli, Head of Kerman Province Judiciary accused the detainees of receiving financial assistance from London through several intermediaries under the guise of helping charities and added that they have confessed to taking advantage of every social tension to disseminate their own suggestions and doubts to the society. Mr. Tavakoli alleged that members of this, what he called was "an organized gang," cooperated with the BBC Persian Service and that they deserved the harshest punishment </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22005'> Yadollah Movahed, the Kerman Revolutionary Prosecutor, announced that the 11 cyber activists from Kerman were sentenced to between 1-11 years in prison in a trial session. The names of these 11 people are Ali Asghar Honarmand, Hossein Nozari, Ehsan Paknejad, Abbas Vahedi, Reza Nozari, Mehdi Faryabi, Amir Sadeghpour, Alireza Vaziri, Mohammad Mousazadeh, Mostafa Poor Gharib and Maliheh Nakhaee. According to the ruling, Ali Asghar Honarmand was sentenced to 11 years, Hossein Nozari to 7 years, Ehsan Paknejad to 5 years, Abbas Vahedi to two and a half years, and seven others, to 15 months imprisonment suspended for three years </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22007'> The appeals court of Kerman Cyber Activists was held at Branch 1 of Kerman Justice Department </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22006'> It was reported that Ali Asghar Honarmand, Hossein Nozari, Ehsan Paknejad and Abbas Vahedi were transferred to Kerman Prison to endure their sentences. An informed source told the Center for Human Rights in Iran that the four were transferred to the jail for execution of their sentences, but they and their lawyers had not yet been notified of the appeals court verdict. They were all convicted of "propaganda against the state" and "acting against national security through the activities in Narenji website" </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22186'> Despite the fact that "Narenji"s were famed, the legal process and circumstances of the detainees of this case are in a state of uncertainty </coverage-outsourcing>