Mohammad Ali Amourinejad

<p>He was a blogger and a graduate of Isfahan Technical University. He was one of the founders of the Al-Torat publication in Farsi and Arabic, an educator in Khalaf Abad (Khalife or Ramshir) High School, and a founder of the Al-Hiwar Cultural Organization.</p>

• <coverage-outsourcing id='46030'> Together with a number of Arab cultural activists, they founded the Al-Hawar (Dialogue) Institute. This institution held cultural events in Arabic language and educational and cultural classes for young people in Ramshir city and was active in promoting Arabic language and culture and women's rights. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2818'> He was an Arab activist who fled to Iraq when pressured by the government. He was granted political refugee status by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees but the Iraqi government arrested and imprisoned him due to illegally entering the country. After three years of incarceration in Amara and Basra Prisons, he was sent to Iran, despite having been granted refugee status. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45661'> According to an IPA source, Mr. Mohammad Ali Amourinejad and Shahid Shabani were arrested. The other detainees, Hashem Shabani, Rahman Asakereh, and Amir Amourinejad, were arrested two weeks later, Hadi Rashidi and Habib Rashidi, 28 days later, as well as Jaber Alboshoke, Mokhtar Alboshoke, and Bagher Alboshoke 42 days after this date. Esmail Obyat and Ali Badri were also arrested after a few days. This source added that Mohammad Ali Amourinejad, Hadi Rashidi, Hashem Shabani, Abdulrahman Asakereh, Jaber Alboshoke, and Mokhtar Alboshoke were severely tortured in the Ahvaz Intelligence detention center. This informed source explains how they were tortured: > They were tortured in various ways, including tying them to the bed and then lashing with cables, punching the sensitive parts of the body, as well as threatening them with the arrest of family members and delivering false news to the prisoners, like the death of a family member; they also used mental torture. This informed source went on to say that they were kept in solitary confinement for about six months, during which time they were denied contact and visits. Habib Rashidi, Amir Amourinejad, Bagher Alboshoke, and Shahid Shabani were transferred to Karun prison in Ahvaz after 72 days of solitary confinement and enduring all kinds of torture. Mr. Esmail Abyat and Mr. Ali Badri were also transferred to Ward 5 of Sheyban Ahvaz prison in May 2011 after completing the interrogation process, they were released soon after posting bail. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45669'> According to an IPA source, Ms. Khaki, who has appeared in the court hearings as a representative of the prosecutor, violated the principles of neutrality and explicitly called the defendants in this case "Baathis" and talked about his father getting killed in the Iran-Iraq war. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45662'> According to an IPA source, Mohammad Ali Amourinejad, Hadi Rashidi, Hashem Shabani, Rahman Asakereh, Jaber Alboshoke, and Mokhtar Alboshoke were transferred to Ward 3 of Karun prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2825'> The confessions of two of the six defendant's in the case - Hashem Shabani and Hadi Rashedi- were broadcast on Press TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran's English-speaking media outlet. These video also included a confession from Tah Heidarian, an Arab activist who was ultimately executed. Press TV has been accused of airing forced confessions that were made under torture. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2832'> Amnesty International issued a statement highlighting the possibility of these six Arab residents of Ahvaz being executed by Iranian security forces and warned that they are at risk of being executed on the charge of "enmity against God". These individuals are currently being held in Karoun Prison in Ahvaz. At least four of them were not allowed access to an attorney for eight months since the time of their arrest. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45666'> An informed source, quoting a family member of these prisoners, told Atlas that in the meeting they had with Judge Mohammad Bagher Mousavi, the head of Ahvaz Revolutionary court's second Branch, Mr. Amouri stated that he did not have freedom of action in this case and only signed the verdict. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45668'> According to an IPA source, the two judges of the case, one of whom is Ameri, refused to issue the verdicts requested by the prosecutor's representative. In the end, they were removed from the case and another judicial official named Mohammad Bagher Mousavi took charge of the second branch of the Revolutionary Court and proceeded to issue the ruling requested by the prosecutor's office and security institutions. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2822'> He was tried in Branch 2 of Ahvaz Revolutionary Court and sentenced to execution on charges of "Enmity against God', "Corruption on Earth", "Propagating against the system", and "Attempts against national security". </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2826'> He was transferred from Karoun Prison to Ahvaz Intelligence Ministry's lock-up alongside the other defendants in this case </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2827'> After returning these inmates from the Ahvaz Intelligence Ministry's lock-up to Karoun Prison, it became apparent that they were subjected to severe torture while held by the Intelligence Ministry. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2823'> Zia Nabavi wrote a letter highlighting the defendant's personality and case details. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2824'> The supreme court (branch number 32) confirmed the verdict </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2820'> Karoun Prison authorities did not allow him to meet with his attorney, Ehsan Moazedi. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2819'> He published a letter entitled : > I want to know why they want to kill me </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2831'> It was reported that these five Arab Iranian citizens were taken to an unknown location. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2830'> Markus Löning, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid, published a statement requesting an immediate stop to the enforcement of the death sentences for the five Arab Iranian residents of Ahvaz </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2833'> Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, requested a halt in the enforcement of the sentences of the five individuals involved in his case. Human Rights Watch, the UN Human Rights Council, multiple Iranian human rights organizations outside of Iran, and the British Government had previously requested that the death sentences for these five Arab-Iranian activists as well. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2829'> The five Arab prisoners sentenced to death and their co-defendant, Ramham Asakere, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison, began a hunger strike in protest of their sentences being upheld by the Supreme Court. This strike lasted for 28 days. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='2821'> Zia Nabavi was taken to the Ahvaz Intelligence Ministry's lock-up and pressured into denying what he wrote about the defendant and labeling him as a terrorist. At the same time, the defendant was also taken to the same lock-up where he was pressured into denying Nabavi's description of himself. Neither Nabavi nor the defendant gave in to the authorities' pressure. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='4793'> He was orally informed that his sentence had been changed to life in prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45663'> According to an informed IPA source, Mr. Mohammad Ali Amourinejad, who is serving his life sentence in Karun prison, was denied leave by judicial authorities to attend his father's funeral. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='4792'> It was reported that he is incarcerated in Karoun Prison in Ahvaz. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='5261'> It was reported that all the political prisoners incarcerated in Karoun Prison in Ahvaz were transferred to Sheiban Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45664'> According to an informed Atlas source, Mr. Mohammad Ali Amourinejad was transferred to Ahvaz Intelligence Detention Center and returned to Sheyban Prison a week later. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='18213'> Amnesty International published a statement,entitled, “Human Rights Defenders Under a Wave of Attacks in Iran” in which the case of Mohammad Ali Amourinejad and Rahman Asakereh, was also, examined. In the statement of Amnesty International these two individuals were imprisoned for having engaged in “peaceful activities” in the Alhavar group </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='28337'> An informed source told IPA that he is still incarcerated in Sheyban prison </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30320'> <reference source=''> According to an informed source, after the riot in Sheyban prison, they were transferred to Ahvaz Intelligence detention center. According to this report, some of them have been "tortured or beaten". Mohammad Ali Amouri, Abdol Zahra Halichi, Jaber Alboshoke, and Seyed Mokhtar Alboshoke are among the people who were transferred from Sheyban Prison to the Intelligence Detention Center. This source further said that they were returned to Sheyban prison after twenty days. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='30311'> <reference source='https://www.kampain.info/archive/44303.htm'> Three political prisoners imprisoned in Sheyban Prison named Jabbar Albushuke, Mokhtar Albushuke, and Mohammad Ali Omouri have gone on a hunger strike to protest the new case brought up against them. It seems that many other political prisoners are also gone on a hunger strike along with them. A new case has been filed on the charge of "persuading prisoners to protest" following the Coronavirus Pandemic </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='33252'> <reference source='https://united4iran.org/en/15prisoners'> United for Iran published the fact patterns and legal analyses of Mohammad Ali Amourinejad's case, taking into consideration human rights and fair trial violations based on international treaties to which the IRI is a signatory. The Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) has been used as the lead document for this context. United for Iran has published similar fact patterns for 14 other political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, and has called on UN institutions to use these resources to file cases and follow up on their situations </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='38054'> <reference source='https://t.me/kaleme/28223'> Mohammad Ali Amourinejad, who has been serving his life sentence in Sheyban prison in Ahvaz without leave for 11 years, has sent an audio message and a letter to his lawyer, Mostafa Nili, who was just released from prison himself. In this letter, while congratulating Mostafa Nili's release, he wrote: We must awaken hope, even if it is insignificant, in the heart of every oppressed person anywhere on this earth. Like seeds, hope takes root and grows in dark, lonely places. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='42942'> According to an IPA source, the health condition of Mohammad Ali Amourinejad has worsened. This informed source further added that the lack of access to the necessary medicine, the prison management preventing his transfer to the hospital, and the deprivation of effective medical services were the factors that aggravated his illness. He is suffering from several diseases including acute sinusitis. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='45665'> According to an Atlas source, Mr. Mohammad Ali Amourinejad is in Sheyban prison after serving nearly 12 years of his sentence without being granted leave. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='51741'> <reference source='https://t.me/KHRO_ORG/67'> He and a number of other political prisoners in Sheiban prison have been denied access to medical services. According to the report, Jaber Sakhravi, Abdolemam Zaeri, Ali Sayahi, Mohammad Ali Amouri, Ali Halafi, Gholam Hossein Kalbi, and Mokhtar Alboshokeh are the prisoners to whom the Sheiban prison authorities refuse to provide adequate and effective medical services and transfer them to medical centers outside the prison. According to this report, Jaber Sakhravi is suffering from MS and two days ago, despite vomiting blood and being transferred to the prison infirmary, he was returned to Ward Five of Sheyban Prison without receiving adequate medical services. Another Arab political prisoner, Ali Sayahi, who is suffering from diabetes and heart disease, has a similar condition, Abdolemam Zaeri is suffering from prostate disease, Mohammad Ali Amouri is suffering from sinusitis and chest injury, Ali Halafi's knee needs urgent surgery. Gholam Hossein Kalbi is suffering from ear infections, tooth problems, and many other diseases, and Mokhtar Alboshokeh is still deprived of access to adequate and effective medical services despite his bad physical condition deteriorating due to an abdominal hernia. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56857'> <reference source='https://t.me/KHRO_ORG/502'> Karoun Telegram channel published a report on the physical condition and denial of access to medical and treatment services of political prisoners in Sheyban prison. According to this report, Mohammad Ali Amouri suffers from severe tooth decay, eye problems, sinusitis, and chest injuries caused by torture in the Ministry of Intelligence. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='56856'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-47699/'> He and at least 16 political prisoners imprisoned in the Sheyban prison of Ahvaz, despite their poor physical condition, have been denied medical attention and transfer to medical centers outside the prison. While announcing this news about Mohammad Ali Amouri's condition, HRANA wrote that he is suffering from tooth decay and sinusitis. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>