Michael White

Michael White

Some sources say he was a former US military force. According to his family, he was arrested after traveling to Iran to visit his girlfriend. According to Iranian government officials, in addition to political charges, he also has a private complainant

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24134'> "Michael White was scheduled to return to the United States on a UAE flight and was probably arrested on the same day.", Joann White told Newyork Times. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24141'> Ivar Farhadi informed IranWire about an American citizen named Michael White, who is being held in Mashhad's Vakilabad prison. "He has been in prison since late summer and said he had a tumor in his body that was suspected of being cancer.", He told IranWire. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24135'> The Iranian government announced his arrest </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24139'> Gholam Ali Sadeghi (Mashhad prosecutor) told Mehr News Agency that Michael White had only a private plaintiff, but a few weeks later he announced that the accuser also had a public complainant and political security allegations </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24140'> Guadalupe White (his wife), has different statements regarding Michael White's Iran trip reasons in an interview with KGTV. PDF file of this interview is recorded in the Evidence section </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24142'> NYTimes: Ms. White learned of her son’s travails after diplomats from the Swiss Embassy in Tehran visited him on Feb. 6 at the prison where he has been held, in the northeast city of Mashhad. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24137'> Gholam Ali Sadeghi, the prosecutor of Khorasan Razavi, announced that Michael White had been sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to additional reports, he was sentenced to two years in prison on the charge of "insulting Ali Khamenei", and sentenced to 10 years in prison on the charge of "sharing a private photo." By applying Article 134, the harshest sentence will be enforced. According to Articles 16 and 17 of the Computer Crimes, A maximum of two years' imprisonment and a fine are imposed for such an accusation. Therefore The second charge's indictment and the legal provision are unknown in this case. IPA has currently recorded only the verdict issued in the political section of his case </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24138'> Jonathan Franks, a spokesman for Michael White's family, told IranWire that the trial of this American citizen was held in the Persian language without a translator and in the absence of a lawyer. He added he had no information on the court details, and Michael White had no contact with his family since his arrest in July 2018. In response to if they have been able to negotiate with Iranian officials, he said: Neither we nor the US State Department and the Switzerland embassy in Tehran has been able to get any information about this case. We have no information about Michael's situation, his charges, and other details. We just found out that he is not in good health condition. His cancer may be back and he has asthma. All we know is that prison will certainly exacerbate his illness. "We have no information about this girl and we do not know whether she has been arrested or not," he said about the girl that Michael White had traveled to Iran to see, and they have photos together </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='24136'> "However, we have been informed that he is in good condition, we are still very concerned about his health because he has an illness background. ," his lawyer, Mark Zayed, told AFP </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='26423'> His mother spoke to the New York Times about her son’s advanced cancer. She said Swiss officials had met Mr White </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='29689'> <reference source='https://iranwire.com/fa/features/37405'> Mr.White went on leave after the Coronavirus outbreak in several Iranian prisons and was transferred to the Switzerland embassy in Iran for medical examination </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='30945'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/3gVXc3J'> Michael White was exchanged with an Iranian prisoner in the United States named Majid Taheri, who was arrested on the charge of "breaching US-imposed bans on dealing with Iran." </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>