Detained Bahá’ís, Students, and Women, and Kurdish Prisoners Sentenced to Death – April 2012
The tables below contain the names of Bahá’ís, female prisoners of conscience, and students who have been detained and a list of Kurdish prisoners who have been sentenced to death. The names are current as of 18 April 2012.
I. 97 Bahá’ís imprisoned in Iran as of 6 January 2012
II. 32 Students Currently Detained
III. 19 Female Prisoners of Conscience Currently Detained
IV. 15 Kurdish Detainees Sentenced to Death
Bahá’ís imprisoned in Iran as of 6 January 2012
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32 Students Currently Detained
Table I
32 Students Currently Detained
Name |
Charges |
Sentence |
Arrest Date |
Details |
Ali Ajami |
Propaganda and conspiracy against the regime |
4 years |
2/1/10 |
Sentence later reduced to 2 years |
Javad Alikhani |
no information |
5 years |
Fall 2007 |
Sentence later reduced to 3 years. |
Peyman Aref |
Propaganda against the regime |
1 year |
2/1/10 |
2009 Elections. Charged 03/2010. Sentenced to a lifetime ban from journalism and any membership in political parties |
Insulting the President |
74 lashes |
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As‟ad Bagheri |
no information |
no information |
Sep 2011 |
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Rahim Bajor |
no information |
no information |
10/13/11 |
no information |
Babak Dashab |
Assembly & conspiracy against national security |
6 years |
2/1/09 |
Sentence later reduced to 5 years; Some reports show 2/3 of his sentenced was forgiven on the occasion of Fetr Eiid |
Propaganda against the regime |
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Majid Dorri |
Muharebeh |
11 years |
7/1/09 |
ACRE member, Charged 12/2009, Sentence reduced to 6.5 years |
Acting against national security |
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Disturbing public order |
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Mahdie Golrou |
Propaganda against the regime |
2 years 4 months |
12/1/09 |
3.4 years total- combined with 1 year suspended imprisonment for similar charges. Sentence later reduced to 2 years on 07/25/2010 |
Assembly and collusion to disrupt national security |
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Kouhyar Goudarzi |
Propaganda against the regime |
1 year |
1/1/09 12:00 AM |
Election Protestor, Arrested again 07/31/2011 Held Incommunicado, charge unknown |
Saiid Jalalifar |
Assembly & conspiracy against national security |
3 years |
8/1/11 |
2nd arrest (December 2009, 4 months detention without charges) Banned from education, |
Propaganda against the regime |
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Bahareh Hedayat |
Conspiracy against the regime |
7.5 years |
12/31/09 |
Student activist arrested on 5 separate occasions. 9.5 years total- combined with 2 years of suspended imprisonment for acting against national security, member of the Islamic Student Association |
Insulting the Supreme Leader |
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Insulting the President |
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Propaganda against the regime |
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Mehdi Khodaii |
Acting against national security |
7 years |
3/1/09 |
Charged 10/2010 |
Propaganda against the regime |
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Omid Kokabee |
Assembly and collusion to disrupt national security |
pending trial conclusion |
Feb-11 |
Trial 10/04/2011. Texas University student being held for having contact with “hostile countries” |
Habibollah Latifi*** |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
Oct-07 |
Charged 07/2008; Awaiting execution |
Shabnam Madadzadeh |
Muharebeh |
5 years |
2/20/08 |
Former political secretary of Tarbiat Moalem’s Islamic Student association; Banned from education. Charged 02/20/2009 |
Acting against national security |
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Hossein Ronaghi Malaki |
Membership in Iran Proxy Network |
15 years |
Dec-09 |
Charged 10/2010. Member of Iran Proxy as an anti-filtering group who has tried to combat against censorship on the Internet |
Insulting the Supreme Leader and President by blogging |
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Ali Malihi |
Acting against national security |
4 years |
2/19/10 |
$100 fine for Insulting the President |
Arash Mohammadi |
no information |
Not Provided |
11/1/11 |
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Rojin Mohammadi |
no information |
10/30/11 |
Held Incommunicado, charge unknown. |
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Siavash Mohammadi |
no information |
Not Provided |
11/1/11 |
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Ali-Akbar Mohammadzadeh |
Illegal assembly/propaganda against the regime |
6 years |
2/15/11 |
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Hamed Rouhi Nejad |
Communication with one of the opposition- Anjoman Padeshahi |
Death Penalty |
Apr-09 |
2009 Elections. Sentence later reduced to 11 years. |
Atefeh Nabavi |
Conspiracy & propaganda against the regime |
4 Years |
6/15/09 |
acquitted of the charge of ” having relations with MEK”. Sentence later reduced to 3 years. |
Zia Nabavi |
Gathering and colluding against national security |
3 years |
6/15/09 |
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Propaganda against the system |
1 year |
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Disturbing public order |
1 year |
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Links to and co- operation with the PMOI |
10 years to be served in internal exile |
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Arash Sadeghi |
Spreading anti-government propaganda |
6 years, 74 lashings |
Ashura Protestor, 2nd arrest (18th of Tir protestor, 3 years) |
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Colluding against the government. |
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Hamid Salavatinejad |
no information |
8/24/11 |
Held Incommunicado, charge unknown. |
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Fereshteh Shirazi |
Charged in relation to her women‟s rights activities |
3 years |
9/4/11 |
Charged 12/2011. Member of the one million signature campaign, Women’s rights activist |
Majjid Tavakoli |
Assembly and conspiracy against the regime |
8 years |
12/7/09 |
Charged 01/2010, 3rd Arrest- (2007, 15 months in jail for student newsletter fabrication: 2008, 115 solitary confinement, ceremony of Bazargan) |
Propaganda against the regime |
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Insulting the Supreme Leader |
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insulting the President |
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Hamed Omidi |
Assembly & conspiracy against national security |
3 years |
Feb-10 |
Participation in Kurdish demonstration, Judge also expelled him from University and banned all future education and degrees |
Hamed Yazerlou |
Having relations with opposing groups of the Islamic Republic |
3 years |
2/20/09 |
2009 Elections. |
Arman Zamani |
no information |
no information |
Nov-11 |
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Faraz Zehtab |
Propaganda against the regime |
6 months |
Jun-09 |
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Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi |
Conspiracy and assembly to disturbing public order |
5 years |
Aug-10 |
2nd arrest (November 2009, 40 days detention) |
Propaganda against the regime |
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Insulting the President |
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Participation in illegal marches |
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Shahin Zeinali |
Acting against national security |
2 years 3 months |
12/16/10 |
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Membership in the Pan-Iranist party |
19 Female Prisoners of Conscience Currently Detained
Name |
Offense |
Sentence |
Arrest Date |
Details |
Nasrin Sotoudeh |
Spreading lies against the state |
11 years |
9/4/10 |
Sotoudeh is a human rights Lawyer. Her sentence was later reduced on 09/2011 to 6 years and 10 year ban on practicing law |
Cooperating with the Center of Human Rights Defenders |
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Acting against national security |
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Atefeh Nabavi Chashmi |
Contact with the Mojahedin Khalgh (MEK) |
3.4 years |
6/15/10 |
Charged 12/2010 |
Participation in the protests of June 15th, 2009 |
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Alieh Eghdamdoust |
Participation in the June 12, 2006 protest in Hafte Tir Square |
3.4 years, 20 lashes |
2/1/09 |
Sentence later reduced to 3 years and no lashing |
Mahboubeh Karami |
Membership in a human rights organization |
4 years |
3/2/10 |
Charged 02/02/2011. Sentence was later reduced to 3 years |
Propaganda against the State |
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Gathering an collusion with the intent of harming national security |
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Hanieh Sane Farshi/ Hanieh “Sharareh” Farshi Shotorban |
Insulting what is sacred |
7 years |
7/18/10 |
Blogger |
Having contacts with a foreign entity |
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Ladan Mostofi |
Insulting what is sacred |
5 years |
Not Provided |
Blogger |
Insulting the Supreme Leader |
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Ashraf Alikhani |
Anti-regime propaganda |
3 years |
Not Provided |
Blogger, Started prison Sentence on 05/25/2011 |
Farah Vazehan |
Participating in Street Protest, |
Death Penalty |
12/29/09 |
Sentence was reduced to 17 years in prison*** |
Being a member of (MKO) |
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Rayhaneh Haj-Ebrahim Dabbagh |
Sending pictures and videos of the demonstrations to foreign countries |
Death Penalty |
no information |
Sentence later reduced to 15 years*** |
Membership of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) |
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Maryam Akbari Monfared |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
1/1/10 |
Sentence later reduced to 15 years*** |
Massoumeh Yavari |
Muharebeh |
7 years |
9/18/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
Nazila Dashti |
Supporting MKO, Illegal Exit From the Border |
3 years |
Apr-07 |
Accused of MEK association |
Motahareh Haghighi Bahram |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
12/27/09 |
Accused of MEK association; Sentence later reduced to 10 years*** |
Kobra Banazadeh Amirkhizi |
MKO |
5 years |
1/16/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
Shabnam Madadzadeh |
Muharabeh/ Acting Against National Security/MKO |
5 years |
2/21/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
Kefayat Malek Mohammadi |
Collaboration with the MKO |
5 years |
12/27/09 |
Accused of MEK association |
Mitra Zahmati |
Membership of An Illegal Group |
2.5 years |
12/24/09 |
Christian converts, Released 01/04/2010 |
Maryam Jalali |
Membership of An Illegal Group |
2.5 years |
12/24/09 |
Christian converts, Released 01/04/2010 |
Shahla Rahmati |
Membership of An Illegal Group |
2.5 years |
3/9/11 |
Christian converts, Ahvaz church arrest, Released 12/20/2011 |
15 Kurdish Detainees Sentenced to Death
Name |
Offense |
Sentence |
Arrest Date |
Details |
Mohammad Amin Abdollahi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
2008 |
Membership of Kurdish group. Charged 01/16/2010. second arrest- first in 2005 when charged with anti-regime propaganda |
Acting against national security |
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Ali Afshari |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
12/14/10 |
Membership of Kurdish group. Charged 08/2011. |
Acting against national security |
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Rashid Akhkandi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
May-08 |
Kurdish man accused of links to Kurdish opposition party; Charged in 2009. Reference HRC Report A/HRC/16/NGO/25; 02/22/2011 |
Habibollah Golparipour |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
Nov-09 |
Kurdish man accused of links to Kurdish opposition party; Charged on 05/07/2010 |
Seyyed Sami Hosseini |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
6/4/08 |
Kurdish man accused of links to PJAK. Reference HRC Report A/HRC/16/NGO/25; 02/22/2011 |
Habibollah Latifi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
10/23/07 |
Kurdish man accused of links to PJAK; family denies charges. Executed 02/18/2009*** |
Sherko Moarefi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
Oct-08 |
Kurdish man accused of links to Komala; Amnesty International |
Acting against national security |
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Seyyed Jamal Mohammadi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
6/4/08 |
Kurdish man accused of links to PJAK. Reference HRC Report A/HRC/16/NGO/25; 02/22/2011 |
Ghader (Aziz) Mohammadzadeh |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
10/13/09 |
Membership of Kurdish group; Held Incommunicado-current condition not known |
Acting against national security |
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Zanyar Moradi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
8/1/09 |
Accused of murdering the son of Marivon Friday Mass Imam; Charged on 12/22/2010; Amnesty International |
Corruption on earth |
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Lughman Moradi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
10/17/09 |
Accused of murdering the son of Marivon Friday Mass Imam; Charged on 12/22/2010; Amnesty International |
Corruption on earth |
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Anvar Rostami |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
1-Dec |
Kurdish man accused of links to Kurdish opposition party |
Disturbing public order |
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Mostafa Salimi |
Muharebeh |
Death Penalty |
2001 |
Kurdish man accused of links to Kurdish opposition party, Reference HRC Report A/HRC/16/NGO/25; 02/22/2011 |
Acting against national security |
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Abdollah Sarvarian |
Spying |
Death Penalty |
not known |
Sentence overturned. Reference HRC Report A/HRC/16/NGO/25; 02/22/2011. |