Mohammad Raji

Mohammad Raji was arrested during the clashes between security forces and Gonabadi dervishes at 7th Golestan Street and died later. He was previously a member of the Revolutionary Guard and has been in the Iran-Iraq War for eight years, but seceded after a while as an unhappy member of the Revolutionary Guards.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='21151'> According to a report from Majzouban Noor's website, he separated from the Revolutionary Guard on this year and engaged in agriculture in Mazrae Abad village in Aligudarz. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21144'> After setting up a checkpoint near the house of the head of Gonabadi dervishes, Nour Ali Tabandeh, a group of Dervishes from across Iran came to Tehran to protect him and gathered in front of his home. This part of Tehran was a scene of clashes between security forces of the Islamic Republic and the Gonabadi Dervishes for several days. Eventually, security officials failed to arrest Nour Ali Tabandeh, but they would sporadically arrest other dervishes </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21145'> Security officials arrested two Gonabadi dervishes. Nematollah Riahi went to the police station to follow up on their situation, but he himself was arrested there as well </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21143'> After the arrest of Nematollah Riahi, a group of Gonabadi dervishes gathered in protest of his arrest in front of the police station 102 at Pasdaran street in Tehran and demanded his release. After a clash between the security forces and the Gonabadi dervishes, the area of unrest increased, and once again the Golestan 7th street turned into a battleground between Gonabadi dervishes and security guards. On this day and in the following days, a large number of dervishes were arrested. It is estimated that the number of arrestees is between 300 and 500 people. A number of Basiji and police officers were also killed in the clashes </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21153'> Many dervishes were arrested as the clashed between Dervishes and the security forces escalated and several police officers and Basijis were killed. Mohammad Raji and his sons, Tayyebeh and Mohammad Ali Raji, were also arrested. Tayyebeh Raji was released a little later. She has told various media that on her arrest day, she saw her father, who had fallen bloody on the ground and shook his hand. Tayyebeh Raji has said that at that time she thought he would be provided with effective health care services, according to his history in IRGC and his father's dire situation </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21152'> Mohseni-Eje'i, the spokesman for the judiciary, said: > Apart from the security officers, one person had died, and I have no knowledge that this person has been identified or whether he has been a riot or another person, but I know that someone who has been in the hospital has died </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21149'> The agents of the Police Criminal Investigation Department contacted Mohammad Raji's family and asked them to bring a photo or a document to "identify" Mohammad Raji </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21147'> Majzouban-e-Noor website reported that Mohammad Raji was killed in prison. Tehran Prosecutor, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, and Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje'i, the spokesman for the judiciary, denied his killing during the interrogations and stated that he had lost his life during the clashes. The Judiciary news agency "Sama" wrote that he had been injured and transferred to Baghiatollah hospital, but died there </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21150'> A member of the family was told in Police Criminal Investigation Department that Mohammad Raji went into a coma and then died </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21146'> Tayyebeh Raji told Radio Farda that police forces had called for Mohammad Raji's "nocturnal burial", but members of the family have opposed. Police also said that if Mohammad Raja's body is not buried until Monday, they will no longer deliver his corpse to the family. According to this report, Mr. Raji's body was sent to Aligudarz (his birthplace and living city) </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='21148'> Majzouban-e-Nour reported that Mohammad Raji's body was buried in Aligudarz last night in the presence of security officials and a small number of family members. On the basis of this report, despite the provision of bail, the Judiciary and security apparatus opposed the release of Mohammad Ali Raji and he was not present at the funeral </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='23742'> Majzooban Noor reported that Mohammad Ali Raji was sentenced to 91 days in prison by judge Salavati </coverage-outsourcing>