Saeed Soltanpour

Saeed Soltanpour

He was arrested during the clashes between security forces and Gonabadi dervishes at 7th Golestan Street

  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22410'> 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='22409'> He was arrested </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22411'> An informed source told Atlas that at least 300 of the dervishes are still in detention. He emphasized that almost none of them have access to lawyers, and security officers are attributing the charge of "using violence" to those who only participated in the protests, filing group cases against them </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='22407'> According to some reports, Mohammad Reza Darvishi and Saeed Soltanpour refused to appear in the court </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='23597'> Majzooban Nour reported that he was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, 74 lashes and exile. By implementing the article 134, five years of this sentence will be executed </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='23775'> After the prison guard attacked Dervishes and the transfer of a number of prisoners to solitary confinement and other wards, he and a group of other prisoners went a hunger strike. They were forbidden to have visits for a while. </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='29823'> After the Coronavirus outbreak, Ali Khamenei ordered a large number of prisoner's freedom by issuing a directive. This directive (with several clauses ) has been mentioned to the political prisoners too. The political prisoners who have been sentenced under five years in prison will be released from prison by security agencies' approval. He was released from prison based on this directive </coverage-outsourcing>
  • <coverage-outsourcing id='30661'> <reference source='https://prisonatlas.com/%db%b3%db%b9-%d8%af%d8%b1%d9%88%db%8c%d8%b4-%da%af%d9%86%d8%a7%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%af%db%8c-%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%b9%db%8c%d8%af-%d9%88-%db%b4-%d9%86%d9%81%d8%b1-%d8%a8%d8%a7-%d8%b6%d8%b1%d8%a8-%d9%88/'> According to IPA, Seven Darwish prisoners named Kasra Nouri, Mostafa Abdi, Kianoosh Abbaszadeh, Vahid Khamoushi, Abbas Dehghan, Amin Saffari, and Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam, are still in prison. Mohammad Sharifi Moghaddam, Kianoosh Abbaszadeh, Abbas Dehghan, and Mostafa Abdi were beaten and transferred to the 5th Brigade of Fashafoyeh Prison. 39 dervishes, including Saeed Soltanpour, Rasoul Hoveida, Mohammad Reza Darvishi, Saeed Karimaei, Mostafa Mir Mohammadi, Babak Moradi, Kianoosh Biranvand, Hadi Shahreza, Saeed Durandish, Ehsaneddin Malek Mohammadi, Mehdi Keyvanloo, and Jafar Ahmadi, have been transferred to Sistan and Baluchestan, South Khorasan and Kerman provinces for serving the exile sentence </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>