Elias Ghalandarzehi

He was arrested on charges such as “Baghi (Taking up arms against the Imam)”. It is said that the reason for his arrest is to put pressure on his uncle who lives abroad to come back to Iran and surrender himself.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='11015'> He was arrested and transferred to Zahedan Intelligence lockup. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='11012'> Elias Ghalandarzehi and Hassan Dehvari received their death sentence. According to Baluch Activists Campaign, the two prisoners have reported that they were "severely tortured" in order to give confessions and have demanded an appeal trial in a public court. According to this report, the two's uncles are "fugitives" and by arresting these two, the government wants to force the fugitives to surrender. Citing an informed source, the campaign writes: > The two prisoners say that we were inside the country and had no involvement. Those outside the country have to answer for themselves and we should not be punished for their actions. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12997'> Hassan Dehvari explained in a letter that he and Elias Ghalandarzehi were arrested for their family ties. He says that after he got arrested, he saw security forces attacking the houses "using bombs and RPGs and machine guns and grenades" with no regard for civilians' presence, including women and children. And one day, after the escape of the men who had taken shelter there, Elias and him and women and children were transferred to Zahedan Intelligence lockup. He writes that in the lockup he was threatened to rape his family members in front of his eyes and film it. He also says that he was tortured in various ways, including "lashes, cable wire, getting shocked while wearing an Iron helmet, and denailing," and he was once threatened with a drill that they would drill holes in his hands and feet. According to this letter published by "Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran," he was allowed to call his home to let his family know that he was alive after 60 days when he also found out that his wife and child were released. He writes that he was detained in solitary cells of Zahedan Intelligence jail for 91 days, then he was moved to the general population ward for three months and 10 days, then to solitary again for 21 days. He was forced to make two confessions in front of Cameras. Once when his family was detained in jail, and the second time when his family members visited him. The Intelligence agents had told him that if he refuses to confess to what they want in front of a camera, they will arrest his family members right there. He and Elias Ghalandarzehi were transferred to Zahedan Prison after seven months, and over the next 16 months, they were taken twice to branch 6 of the Revolutionary Court for interrogation (Mr. Shah Mohammadi). He writes that when they told interrogator Shah Mohammadi that their confessions were taken under torture, he ignored it. In December 2016, He and Elias Ghalandarzehi were tried in Zahedan court with Mohammad Marzieh and Hossein Khosravi. According to the letter, Mr.Marzieh told them that "I'm certain that you are both innocent," but "you are our hostages." If your relatives do not surrender themselves, "we will execute you in their place." In the end, he writes that after they received their sentence and objected to it, the case was referred to the supreme court of the country. The letter is documented in the Supporting Evidence section of this page. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13640'> Elias Ghalandarzehi's name was on the "List of Zahedan Prison's political prisoners" published by the Baloch Campaign, which is contributed to by Baluch activists. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14038'> HRANA published a report and a video of the verdicts pronounced for Hassan Dehvari, Elias Ghalandarzehi, Shahab Dehvari, and Moslem Dehvari. According to this evidence, Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandarzehi were accused of "baghy" while Shahab Dehvari and Moslem Dehvari were accused of "assisting an act of baghy." They were all tried at Branch 2 of the Zahedan Revolutionary Court in the presence of secondary judges Marzieh and Khosravi. An informed source told HRANA that the confessions had been obtained under "torture," and that the discovered weapons and objects did not belong to the defendants. They were among the items left from a group that had gotten into a fight with the police officers earlier on the day Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandarzehi were arrested. An image of the sentence is available in the Supporting Evidence section of this profile. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14213'> Elias Ghalandarzehi, together with a group of " Zahedan Central Prison's political prisoners," wished the Iranian people a happy Nowruz. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14451'> The Baloch Campaign published a letter signed by 36 of "Zahedan Central Prison's political prisoners." Elias Ghalandarzehi, together with the others who have signed the letter, has asked the "Sunni youth" not to pay attention to the authorities' promises, and continue their protests until Molavi Kouhi is released. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='15141'> Shoayb Mollazehi was released from Zahedan Prison on 50 billion IRR bail (208,500 USD). According to the Baloch Campaign, Shoayb Mollazehi, Elias Ghalandarzehi, and Hassan Dehvari had been arrested at the same time, and detained for "acting against national security." </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='20242'> HRANA published a letter from Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandarzehi. The letter reaffirms that the two were severely tortured and sentenced to death for political activities of family members. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='26819'> A number of Zahedan Prison's political prisoners and prisoners of conscience released a letter denouncing human rights violations in the prison. In the letter, they refer to physical torture methods used in the high-security wards of Zahedan Prison, name several prisoners who were tortured in Zahedan Police Detention Center, and describe the tortures they underwent there. The letter also states that Elias Ghalandarzehi and Hassan Dehvari were severely tortured in the Intelligence Ministry's detention center. According to the letter, hanging, prolonged sleep deprivation, electric shocks, beating with batons, and tying the accused up to a bed and whipping them are instances of the tortures inflicted on Elias Ghalandarzehi and Hassan Dehvari during their detention at the Intelligence Ministry's detention center. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34048'> <reference source='https://t.me/emtedadnet/50671'> Mohammad Reza Faghihi, Hassan Dehvari's and Elias Ghalandarzehi's defense attorney, referred to judicial misconduct in the case and insisted that there had been flaws in the trial and the judicial process of the case. He, therefore, considers the pronounced sentence flawed. Mr. Faghihi has called for immediate suspension of their death sentences, and announced that he requested judicial review for these two prisoners at the Supreme Court's Secretariat today. "After thoroughly studying Hassan Dehvari's and Elias Ghalandarzehi's case at the Zahedan Revolutionary Court, we found that there had been errors in the judicial process of the case and that the verdict determined for them was similarly flawed. In this regard, we applied for judicial review, as the most common legal action at this stage, and our request was registered at the Supreme Court Secretariat on Saturday. Now, the case is waiting for a court branch to be appointed for its judicial review.", said Mr. Faghihi in an interview with Emtedad News. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34049'> <reference source='http://bit.ly/3nghqHd'> Hassan Dehvari, Elias Ghalandarzehi, and Omid Mahmoudzehi were executed in Zahedan Prison. Hassan Dehvari's and Elias Ghalandarzehi's death sentences were carried out while Mohammad Reza Faghihi, their defense attorney, had announced yesterday, that the two detainees had applied for judicial review of their case at the Supreme Court Secretariat due to judicial flaws found in its judicial process and considering the verdict. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='34306'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%d8%a7%d8%b9%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%b2%d9%86%d8%af%d8%a7%d9%86%db%8c%d8%a7%d9%86-%d8%a8%d9%84%d9%88%da%86/'> In a statement, United For Iran condemned recent executions of Baloch political prisoners and warned about the possibility of executing three other prisoners. Abdulhamid Mirbalochzehi, Hamid Rast Bala, Kabir Saadat Jahani, Mohammad Ali Arayesh, Hassan Dehvari and Elias Ghalandarzehi are among the executed prisoners and Amanollah Baluchi (also known as Amin Mirbalochzehi), Abdolrahim Kouhi and Javid Dehghan Khold are also under the threat of execution. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>