Shahab Abbasi

He is a resident of Fallahieh.

<coverage-outsourcing id='6699'> Shahab Abbasi, Ghazi Abbasi, Abdolreza Amir Khanafereh, Abdolamir Mojdemi, Jasem Moghaddampanah, Hadi Akbokhanfarnejad, and Sami Jadmavinejad were arrested by agents of the Intelligence Ministry in July 2009. Some of these individuals were held in solitary confinement in the Ahwaz Intelligence Ministry office's lock-up while being tortured, according to reports from their families and ward-mates </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6704'> It appears that the defendants in this case were transferred to Karoun Prison in 2011 </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6709'> A former inmate who spoke with human rights groups under the condition of anonymity, stated that he was incarcerated alongside four inmates on death row for two weeks in 2011. He stated that both Amir Khanafereh and Ghazi Abbasi told him that during their time being held in the Ahwaz Intelligence Ministry office's detention center, they were blindfolded and made to lay face-down on a bed while agents beat their feet and backs with whips until they confessed to having used a gun. This source also claimed to have seen the bruised areas on the bodies of Amir Khanafere and Abbasi, which they informed him were the result of electric shock being used in their torture. This source claimed that during his time in Karoun Prison, he noticed a number of Arab inmates that had similar marks on their bodies. The source stated that Abbasi and Khanafereh had both been barred from accepting visitors on orders of the Intelligence Ministry. These findings were later included in statements made by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the Human Rights Documentation Center. </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6710'> The defendants were tried in Branch 1 of Ahwaz Revolutionary Court where Judge Ali Farhadvand sentenced Ghazi Abbasi, Abdolreza Amir Khanafereh, Abdolamir Mojdemi, and Jasem Moghaddampanah to execution on charges of "Enmity against God" and "Corruption on Earth" while Shahab Abbasi, Hadi Albokhanfarnejad, and Sami Jadmavi were sentenced to three years' imprisonment in exile to Ardebil Prison. The court did not include the three years of served time into account for the sentences it issued </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6719'> Branch 32 of the Supreme Court presided by Judge Reza Farajollahi and Advisor Ali Asghar Latifi Rostami upheld the death sentences of Jassem Moghaddam Payam, AbdolAmir Mojdami(?), Shahab Abbasi, Abdolreza Amir Khazafereh(?), and Ghazi Abbasi in the appeal trial. The supreme court based its decision on the confessions of the defendants in the preliminary stages of their trial procedure. As in lower court where Judge Farhadvand decided that it is "natural" for defendants to deny their confessions afterwards, the Supreme Court also dismissed the issue of torture as a possible crime committed by the security forces without further investigation, and also ignored it as a factor that discredits the confessions. In the analytical reports later written on these rulings, this question was routinely raised that what are the conditions in the Intelligence detention centers that "naturally" lead to the suspects' "confession" to the charges and later denying them in court? One analysis asks "Is this not an implicit confession by the regime's judges to the terrible conditions and possibly torture in Iranian detention centers, and at the same time the legitimization of those conditions? Later researches and reports by human rights organizations emphasize that despite the fact that the court and the supreme court have both mentioned the defendants' claims of torture, the Iranian government has made no inquiries into the matter. Both courts also included that aside from the confessions, the only other evidence for their ruling was the recovered weapon. But the prisoners published a letter announcing that the weapon expert who believed that the weapon had never shot a bullet at Iranian forces was replaced after pressures from the Intelligence ministry, and that owning a weapon in Khuzestan and other parts of Iran that lived through the eight year war is not out of the ordinary </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6724'> The defendants' sentences were relayed to them five months after they were upheld by the Supreme Court </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6751'> The defendants published a letter from prison in Arabic in which Ghazi Abbasi states: > For two years I was not allowed any contact with my family. They arrested my brothers to pressure me, and my brother Shahab was taken to the Intelligence Ministry lock-up from his military duties, where he began to suffer from multiple physical and mental issues, before finally being transferred to Sepidar Prison </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6739'> The news of his co-defendants' execution was published. The report claimed that these political prisoners were executed and buried </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='6747'> Naeim Abbasi, Ghazi and Shahab's brother, was arrested. Reports indicate that this arrest was an attempt to pressure the family of the executed prisoners and prevent them from speaking with the press </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='2721'> He was attacked by two other inmates and his right shin was broken </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='2722'> It was reported that he was not allowed proper medical care after sustaining an injury to his leg </coverage-outsourcing>