Siamak Mirzaei

He is one of the Turk activists arrested and condemned by different courts several times for his political activities.

<coverage-outsourcing id='7456'> Arrested and released after some time </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7457'> Arrested and released after some time </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7458'> Arrested and transferred to the Intelligence ministry offices in Ardabil. He was taken, several times, to branch 5 of The Public and Revolutionary Court of Ardabil. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7459'> According to Sallavan Sessi intelligence agents ransacked and searched his father’s home. He was released on a 15 billion Rial bail after a while </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7462'> He was given a star, meaning he was banned from studies </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7461'> Arrested in his father’s home in Parsabad, Moghan </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7460'> In branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Ardabil, headed by Judge Hassanzadeh, he was tried and sentenced to two years of suspended prison term. According to HRANA this Azerbaijani student was accused of forming the illegal group, Galjak, contact with enemies of the Republic, as well as participation and speaking in secessionist meetings </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12532'> Arrested and released after two days </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7463'> Arrested, along with many other participants in the ceremony for the martyrs of Naghdeh and released after the ceremony </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7465'> Accused of connection to illegal groups, he was sentenced to three years incarceration. It is said that a little while back he was condemned for the same crime to two years in prison. The plaintiffs in this case were: the ministry of Intelligence and the intelligence branch of the Security Forces. He submitted a claim to his rights in regards to being twice accused of the same crime. The Appeal Court removed him from the custody of the court of Ardebil, and transferred his case to the court in Pasabad,Moghan. The latest court has stopped the pursual of the case. According to a report by Oguz TV, he has told his family, during a thirty second contact, that he is being held at Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7464'> Arrested in the protests for Lake Urmia and freed after four days on a 30 Billion Rial bail </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7468'> Was sentenced for the crime of “propagating against the Islamic Republic” by Parsabad court and was fined 50 million Tomans </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7466'> Were arrested in Pars Abad city park in Moghan, by intelligence forces then set free </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7467'> Abbas Lasani, Rahim Ghomai, Siamak Mirzai, Asgar Akbarzadeh, Fereidun Aghazadeh, Meysam Azadi, Kianoush Tohidi, and Hamid Ghorbanalizadeh, in order to take part in the one- year-since-death anniversary of one of the activists, they had traveled the town of Khoy where they were arrested by security forces </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7469'> In a letter to Ali Jannati, the minister of culture, he requested that the minister try to find a solution to the problem of racism that plagues the country with both words and actions. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7470'> A grocer was arrested in his place of business in Parsabad, Ardabil. According to HRANA after his arrest of this Azerbaijani activist several articles by him have been published, security agents ransacked and searched his home. Later, several reports were made about the humiliating and violent nature of his arrest and the ransacking and destruction of his store and goods. Seda News also reported that in the past years, he had tried to establish a veterinary and health company which lost it’s license during a rights review </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7507'> HRANA claims that according to the arrest warrant issued by the Golestan judiciary (Saveh road) branch 3, he has been transferred from Intelligence ministry prison to section 209 of Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='7580'> Oghuz TV reported that he had a thirty second telephone contact with his family and informed them that he is in Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8025'> According to a report by Oguz TV, agents showed up in his store and claimed that he it would be sealed and condemned because he didn’t have a health inspector’s license for his goods. These accusations were false according to the report and were meant to intimidate the shop owner </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8022'> Seda News reported that in the last few days in a phone call to his family he said, “ The have linked my freedom to my absence from and cessation of activity in the region of Moghan” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8149'> Seda News reported that that the interrogator Rajabi, responded to the prisoner’s father’s complaint that his son was devoid of the most elementary rights of prisoners by stating that, “Evin section 209 has its own special system” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8250'> HRANA reported that the prosecutor, Rajabi, claimed that the duration of incarceration would be 31 days, but yesterday he told the prisoner’s wife that the sentence has been renewed. Although his crime has not been officially declared the prosecutor claims that he was arrested because of contact with foreigners </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8759'> OguzTV reported that some posters of him were posted on the walls in some towns of Azerbaijan. Two days later, the same website gave news of these posters being posted in some of the streets of Tehran. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='8532'> According to a report from Araz News, he told his wife in a telephone call, that he was released from solitary confinement and taken to section 123 of Evin prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='9888'> The first session of the review of the accusations against Siamak Mirza’i was convened at the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Rajabi </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='10295'> Was taken to the quarantine quarters of the public section of the prison. According to HRANA reports he was cleared of the crime of “contact with foreigners.” But he still faces the accusation of the crime of “assembly and control of masses in order to jeopardize the national security” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='11191'> As reported by Azoh, his court hearing was held. His crime was “assembly and control of masses in order to jeopardize national security” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='12531'> Oguz TV, published the verdict and reported that Judge Bahram Hassani of the Revolutionary Court of Baharestan, sentenced Siamak Mirzai to ten years incarceration, and two years exile in Tabas and the destruction and ban of all the books, articles and writings of the accused. Judge Hassani also banned him for participation in peaceful demonstrations and all social media sites, and visit with other political prisoners and activists. He is also banned from asking for any permission to meet with international observers or former political prisoners. He is also not permitted to write articles in the realm of freedom of speech, which are seen as proof of his cessationist tendencies and his attempt at forming illegal groups, and give weight to the justness of his sentencing. The published verdict can be found in the footnotes to this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='14429'> HRANA, quoting his lawyer, Mohammad Reza Faghihi, reported that Siamak Mirzai’s file had been sent to the Appeals Court of Tehran headed by Judge Zargar. In the reports that followed it became clear that the date for his last defense was set for May. But this hearing reached no verdict because all the documents and evidence were not transferred on time to the Appeals Court from the initial court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='15845'> Siamak Mirzai in a letter addressed to the attorney general of Tehran, Mr. Haji Moradi, protested the meddling of intelligence units in the judicial process. He added that more and more initial interrogators have been added to Agent Rajabi and Judge Hassani. Ten years of prison has been set for a group which has never existed and not even the judge could find a name for it nor another person accused of membership in this non-existing group. He and his family were put under much pressure because of the arrest. His father was, also, arrested for several hours </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16122'> Siamak Mirzaei published a letter, addressed to Evin’s ward 8 warden, announcing that from this day he will embark on a hunger strike protesting in the “illegal” meddling of the security apparatus in the legal process, including not submitting the necessary documents for an appeals court that in his view is surely “intentional”. At the end of the letter, he requested from the warden of his ward to be sent into solitary confinement so that the details of his hunger strike can be recorded with accuracy. This letter can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16191'> Azoh reported that Siamak Mirzaei has gone on a hunger strike where he drinks only water, and no salt or sugar and the authorities of branch 36 of the court of appeals announced that the case, in its entirely, will be received from the initial court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16359'> His father Ghadir Mirzaei published a video declaring that according to the judiciary, “the disappearance of the file” has caused confusion, and that the responsible authorities should be held accountable for anything bad that may happen to Siamak Mirzaei </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16785'> Twelve of the Azerbaijani activists, who were holding a demonstration protesting the prolongation of Siamak Mirzaei’s temporary arrest and detention in Ghaleh Babak prison, were arrested and taken to the Intelligence ministry’s detention center in Tabriz. HRANA announced the names of eleven of these individuals: Hamed Ravaji, Rahim Norouzi, Milad Akbari, Rahim Zarei, Morteza Parvin, Akbar Jahangiri, Araz Gharadeghani, Sajad Sadeghi, Mohammad Mardi, Hassan Gharadeghani and Reza Aghaei.The last five were released in 24 hours without bail or promise. According to a report by different sources, Morteza Parvin was severely injured during the arrest and in the detention center. On the other hand, Tohid Amini was, also, pursued by security forces, for his speech during the ceremonies. Based on the reports, it seems that the arrested that remain in the detention center, have been transported from the Intelligence ministry detention center in Tabriz to Ahar, at least once </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='16394'> Araz News, reports that after the appeals court informed him that his case file was complete and that it’s problems had been fixed, he ended his strike </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19354'> According to Azoh, Mehdi Aslani, Mohammad Mirzaei, Majid Mousavi, Milad Abbasi, and an individual by the name of Taher who was in the night broadcast and posting of pictures of Siamak Mirzaei in Ardabil, were arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='17393'> HRANA reported that the court of appeals reduced his sentence to three years incarceration and one year exile to Tabas due to “disproportionate punishment for the attributed charge”. Azoj, in a report, that it published a few days later, maintained that judge Babaei issued the sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='19674'> He wrote a letter to the prosecutor of the province of Baharestan criticizing him, who “follows the orders and recommendations of the Intelligence Ministry forces” and asking, once again, how can an illegal association be created “single-handedly”? “You and your colleagues of the judiciary, including, Judge Hassani and Judge Zargar who have no knowledge of linguistic and cultural problems and plight, following the orders of Intelligence Ministry officials, charging me with organizing an association that you have not, even, been able to name”. This letter, published by HRANA, can be found in the evidence section of this page </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20218'> According to HRANA they have filed a new case with charges of "insulting the leadership" and "disturbing public order" against him. According to an informed source on his hunger strike and repeated letters have been the reason for them to open a new case for him by staging a show fight </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20243'> By writing a letter published by Azouh, he explained that the new charges were due to his continued activity in prison, which, “in addition to his intellectual issues and sphere of activity, defended the rights and wishes of non-political prisoners” </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='20597'> Hrana reports that he has been acquitted of the charges "disturbing public order and insulting the Supreme leader" </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='21322'> According to Hrana, Siamak Mirzaie's conviction was confirmed at Branch 35 of the Supreme Court and his lawyer, Mohammad Reza Faghihi, was also notified about the confirmation </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25578'> On that date, he had finished serving a three years sentence in prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25577'> He went on a hunger strike when he received a new case simultaneously on preparing to get released from prison and his transferral to Ward 209. Hrana reported that his family had been offered bail for a new charge-related case, but the bail has not been accepted </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25848'> According to Hrana, he ended his hunger strike and was transferred to ward 8 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='25984'> He was released from prison and transferred to Ghayen in order to begin his 1-year exile </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='27971'> Siamak Mirzaei, who had been exiled to Ghaen city, received a new sentence. According to a copy of his case published by the Political and Civil Prisoners defending Campaign, he was sentenced to one-year imprisonment and two years' ban on leaving the country and joining political and social groups on the charge of "propaganda against the system." </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='31182'> The Tehran Appeals Court confirmed his sentence </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='34434'> <reference source='http://bit.ly/3cc7e0B'> The Azerbaijan Political Organizations Platform released a statement that mentions the release of Latif Hosseini and demands the immediate and unconditional release of Abbas Lesani, Ali Reza Farshi, Siamack Mirzaei, Yousef Kari, and other political and ideological Azeri prisoners. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='34336'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d9%be%d8%a7%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%aa%d8%b5%d8%a7%d8%a8-%d8%ba%d8%b0%d8%a7%db%8c-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%aa%d8%b1%da%a9/'> After the return of Yousef Kari to ward seven from the quarantine, Mr. Kari and all the political prisoners who had gone on hunger strike in support of his rights, ended their strikes. Abbas Lesani, Ali Vaseghi, Reza Vaseghi, and Siamack Mirzaei had gone on hunger strike in support of Mr. Kari, and Behnam Shaikhi, Tohid Amir Moeni, and Kianoush Aslani were to join them today. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>