Mohammad Hosseinpour

He arrested in front of the Khorasan Court of Appeals during the rally of political and civil activists. Some of those arrested were the signers of 14 political activists statement.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='28918'> A strongly-worded statement was published by 14 political activists inside the country calling for the resignation of Ali Khamenei and fundamental changes to the constitution. It led to similar 14-person statements inside and outside the country </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28920'> A number of political and civil activists who had gathered in front of appellate court for Kamal Jafari Yazdi were arrested. They were first sent to Vakilabad Prison and three days later to Mashhad’s Intelligence Ministry detention house. Based on some reports, all the arrested men staged a hunger strike. A number of the arrestees were signatories to the 14-person statement </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28919'> Fars News Agency, which is close to the IRGC, reported the following: “Today, a number of anti-regime elements who were seeking a plan to create disorder and disrupt security were arrested in a meeting in Mashhad. The arrestees have relations to the counter revolutionary groups abroad. They have relations with groups that seek the overthrow the regime and designs to organize clashes in the city.” A few days later, Hassan Jafari, the deputy provincial governor of Khorasan Razavi province who is in charge of the political department, repeated the same claims and said the political activists had not been arrested because of their letter to Ali Khamenei but because of their attempts to “overthrow” the regime and “contact people abroad.” The provincial offices of the Intelligence Ministry also published a statement that said that the arrestees were seeking “new conspiracies and chaos” and that “they had a mission as the parliamentary elections approached; they were to plan contacts with critical candidates, make them more bold in their positions and thus use open political space to create chaos and further domestic clashes. With creating new disunity, they were to further the goals of the enemies of the Iranian nation” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28922'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-23672/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763'> Eight people connected with the 14-person statement were sentenced to prison, exile, and social deprivations by Branch 4 of Mashhad Revolutionary Court. According to the sentence, Hashem Khastar was sentenced to 16 years in prison, three years in exile in Nikshahr, and a three-year ban on leaving the country, Mohammad Nourizad was sentenced to 15 years in prison, three years in exile in Izeh, and a three-year ban on leaving the country, Abdol Rasul Mortazavi was sentenced to 26 years in prison, Mohammad Hossein Sepehri was sentenced to 6 years in prison, Fatemeh Sepehri was sentenced to 6 years in prison, and Hashem Rajaei, Mohammad Hossein Pour and Morteza Ghasemi were sentenced to one year in prison. Due to the vagueness of the charges against these people, some of the sentences have not been recorded in the statistical section </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>