Mohammad Ali Mansouri

Mohammad Ali Mansouri (Pirouz Mansouri) are among the political prisoner whose family members were, also, arrested and imprisoned many times

• <coverage-outsourcing id='7261'> He was a political prisoner in the 80s </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='508'> Arrested at gathering in honor of executed prisoners in 1988 and sent to Evin Prison's Ward 209. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7237'> Mohammad Ali Mansouri was sentenced to 15 years incarceration by judge Salavati, with a change of his charge from, “assembly and collusion in order to act against national security” to “warring against god due to membership in the MEK” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7248'> His sister Zahra Mansouri was arrested and sentenced to prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7247'> He was summoned to court to pay a 150 thousand Toman fine in a “terrible and insulting” manner. According to HRANA’s report, the chief warden of the prison (Mr. Mardani) and the head of summonings of Rajaei Shahr prison in Karaj (Mr. Mehrdad Salimi) played a role in the creation of this situation for the prisoner </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7244'> HRANA reported that Saeid Masouri, Saleh Kohandel, Naseh Yousefi, Khaled Hardani, Mohammadali Mansouri, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhaziri, Hamidreza Borhani, and Misagh Yazdannezhad began hunger strikes in protest of the conditions in the prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7241'> Following the transfer of Rasoul Bodaghi and Shahrokh Zamani to solitary confinement due to their complaints regarding the shuttering of the library in Ward 12 and subsequent hunger strike, Saeid Masouri, Saleh Kohandel, Naseh Yousefi, Khaled Hardani, Mohammadali Mansouri, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhaziri, Hamidreza Borhani, and Misagh Yazdannezhad began hunger strikes </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7240'> After the assault on Ward 350 (The Black Friday of Ward 350), Rassoul Badaghi, Hamidreza Borhani, Mohammad Bannazadeh Amirkhizi, Khaled Hardani, Afshin Heiratian, Batirshah Mohammadof, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Saleh Kohandel, Saeed Massouri, Mohammad Ali Mansouri, Missagh Yazdannejad, and Nasseh Yousefi went on hunger strike in support of Ward 350 prisoners and in sympathy with their families </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='8170'> Pirouz Mansouri, Saeed Shirzad, Soheil Babadi, Shahrokh Zamani, Shahin Zoghitabar, and Misah Yazdannezhad published a statement requesting Mohammad Taheri's death sentence to be overturned, stating this verdict is an assault to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='510'> Reported that he was in Rajaee Shahr Prison without furlough for eight years. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7239'> His son Ali Reza Mansouri was arrested and released afterwards </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7236'> The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, published a report about his condition and announcing that Mr. Mansouri had been deprived of temporary leave during the past 9 months, he was tried on the old interpretation of the charge of Moharebeh or Warring against God, and his appeal for a new hearing was not accepting. Article 59 of the Islamic Penal Code, was not applied to him and with the completion of half of his prison sentence, he, still, has not been granted a conditional leave </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7796'> According to HRANA, after Saleh Kohandel, Pirouz Mansouri and Afshin Bayamani refused to go to the IRGC ward, the prison guard forced and muscled them into the solitary cells of that ward </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7801'> In a letter to United Nations' secretary general and the Human Rights Council, Saeed Masoury, Reza Akbari Monfared, Hassan Sadeghi, Shahin Zoghi, Mohamad Akramipour, Amir Ghaziani, Abolghasem Fouladvand, and Saeed Shirzad announced that they will go on a hunger strike in order to raise awareness to the terrible conditions of other prisoners, and in solidarity with Saleh Kohandel, Pirooz Mansoori, and Afshin Baymani, who were moved to solitary confinement after their objection to the execution of Sunni prisoners of conscience </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='7941'> According to HRANA, Saleh Kohandel, Mohammad Ali Mansouri and Afshin Baymani were returned to the general ward </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10114'> Twelve prisoners of ward 4 in hall 12 of Rajayi Shahr prison in Karaj announced their support of Maryam Akbari Monfared's lawsuit and demand for justice. This letter was published by Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Activists in Iran, and is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page. The signatories are as follows: Reza Akbari Monfared, Saeed Shirzad, Mohamad Ali Mansouri, Behnam Mousivand, Saleh Kohandel, Saeed Masouri, Javad Fouladvand, Hassan Sdeghi, Shahin Zoghitabar, Ali Moezzi, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, and Khaled Hardani </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10387'> In a letter to workers, teachers, and students, a group of Rajayi Shahr prisoners supported their protests. The signatories were as follows: Abolghasem Fouladvand, Reza Akbarri Monfared, Saeed Masouri, Mohamad Ali Mansouri, Saleh Kohandel, Ali Moezzi, Hassan Sadeghi, Shahin Zoghitabar, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, Jaber Abedini, Ebrahim Firouzi, and Khaled Hardani. According to Hesar News reports, a few days later, the same prisoners - except Jabe Abedini - along with Arzhang Davoudi, signed another letter in support of a conference in Paris and called it a conference to "empower the movement for demanding justice". Some of the signatories published other solo or group letters later on </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15142'> His daughter Mansoureh Mansouri wrote a letter to Asma Jahangir, expressing her concern about his second transfer to Evin prison. She expressed concern about another case being mad against her father and asked, “The question is this, how can a person, imprisoned for the past ten years without the possibility any contact with the outside world, is a danger and threat to national security?” </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15717'> According to Bam, he was transferred to ward 12 of Rajaei Shahr prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='19451'> After the collective transfer of the political and ideological/religious prisoners of Rajaei Shahr prison to a new ward, a number of them began a hunger strike.This widespread hunger strike led to the prison guards and staff’s mistreatment of prisoners’ families, threatening of prisoners, putting prisoners in solitary confinement and withholding medical treatment and medicines. The collective protest was met with the media reaction of the judiciary, and the support of human rights organizations and some of the civil and political activists. Because some of the prisoner terminated their strike sooner and some of them were, also, transferred to solitary cells, the list of names changed during the period of the hunger strike, but in general, the names of prisoners who partook in the hunger strike, whose names have been confirmed by verified lists, are as follows: Majid Asadi, Jafar Eghdami, Saeed Shirzad, Saeed Masouri, Shahin Zoghitabar, Reza Akbari Monfared, Abolghasem Fouladvand, Hasan Sadeghi, Reza Shahabi, Mohammad Nazari, Payam Shakiba, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, Mohammal Ali Mansouri, Ebrahim Firouzi, Amir Ghaziani, Vahid Sayad Nasiri, Hamid Babaei, Zanyar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, Houshang Rezaei and Saeed Pourheydar. Among them Saeed Shirzad, Reza Shahabi, and Mohammad Nazari’s hunger strike lasted longer than 50 days.The last two, had continued their hunger strike in protest to the situation of their own cases </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18295'> An informed source told Iran Prison Atlas that after the political prisoners were transferred from Hall 14 Ward 4 to Hall 10 of the same ward and they refused to eat in response, some continued their hunger strike: Saeed Masouri, Jafar Eghdami, Abolghassem Fouladvand, Reza Akbari Monfared, Hassan Sadeghi Khoramdashti and Amir Ghaziyani where transferred to solitary cells, and in the ward’s hall, some prisoners on strike, as well, including, Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi and Mohammad Ali Mansouri </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='22114'> According to HRANA, Mohammad Mansouri, in the 28th Branch of the Tehran Revolutionary court, presided over by judge Moghiseh, due to his activities within the prison has been accused of “gathering and colluding against national security” due to “influencing other prisoners and going on a hunger strike , declaring his support for Mohammad Ali Taheri, and issuing a declaration in regards to the verdict of hanging for religious prisoners” and sentenced to another 5 years of imprisonment </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='27881'> <reference source='https://ipa.united4iran.org/media/file_evidence/1_un08vut.pdf'> Seven prisoners in Rajaei Shahr Prison sent an open letter in support of the November 2019 national protests and condemned the violent suppression of protesters. They also mentioned some examples of the abuse of arrested protesters by the security forces: > They'd bring the arrested protesters in trucks to ward 8 (IRGC and Intelligence Ministry lockup) and they'd lay into them with batons and cables and punches while they were handcuffed and blindfolded. Didn't matter if they were wounded or not. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39428'> He was transferred to the hospital after a heart attack. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39429'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2021/hranews/a-31584/'> According to HRANA, Mr. Mansouri's leg is chained to the bed while in ICU. There is talk about returning him to prison even though he has blocked arteries. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='39427'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-34800/'> HRANA reported that Mohammad Ali Mansouri requires serious medical attention In a letter to the UN special human rights reporter and Amnesty International, his daughter Iran Mansouri wrote that despite a heart attack a few months ago and the doctor's emphasis on the danger of prison for his father's life, he is being denied medical furlough. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='47329'> <reference source='https://bit.ly/40VLSM4'> He was released from prison. On February 5th, 2023, the Islamic Republic's Judiciary issued a memo that announced the beginning of the process of releasing some of the protesters arrested during the 2022 national uprising. According to the judiciary's Mizan website, and latest comments made by the spokesperson for the judiciary, this "pardon" is in honor of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and contingent on the prisoners expressing regret; The pardon is not extended to cases with charges such as "connection to dissident groups", and "destruction of public property". However, many of the released prisoners have posted videos and notes saying they never requested a pardon and never expressed regret. There are even videos of female activists taking off their hijab and chanting against the Islamic Republic in front of the prison moments after their release. The release of prisoners being called a pardon has caused massive reaction online and some activists on social media and human rights organizations consider it a PR stunt to repair some of the damage to Ali Khamenei's image. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>