Abed Tavancheha, an Iranian leftist student and blogger, was sentenced to eight months in prison for his political activities.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/abed-tavancheha","country":"Iran","lat":"32.916485","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Ahmad Zaid-Abadi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Ahmad_Zaid-Abadi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-06-15","date_to":"2009-06-15","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.roozonline.com\/","background":"
According to the CPJ<\/a>, Zaid-Abadi, a well-known journalist who writes a weekly column for Rooz Online<\/a>, a Farsi and English reformist news Web site, was arrested in mid-June in Tehran. Zaid-Abadi<\/a> is also the director of the Organization of University Alumni of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a supporter of the defeated candidate Mehdi Karroubi. <\/p>\n He is kept in a very bad situation even compared to other political prisoners based on many reports. In prison, he went on a hunger strike that was broken by force by security forces.<\/p>\n In December 2009, and according to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters<\/a>, Ahmad has been condemned to 6 years imprisonment, 5 years exile and lifetime prohibition from social and political activities.<\/p>\n On Dec. 17, 2009, Zeidabadi won World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award for 2010<\/a>.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ahmad-zaid-abadi","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Ali Asguar Jamali","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/asguar.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-09-02","date_to":"2009-09-02","blog_url":"http:\/\/pezeshk55833.blogfa.com\/","background":" Ali Asguar Jamali is a blogger and doctor based in the northern city of Qasvin who was arrested on September 1, 2009 for \"inciting actions against national security including protests and insults against government officials.\" Jamali, who is known for treating the poor free of charge and who defends workers' rights on his blog, keeps a blog entitled \"DR social-democrat\" (http:\/\/pezeshk55833.blogfa.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ali-asguar-jamali","city":"Qasvin","country":"Iran","lat":"36.268636","lon":"50.007019"}},{"item":{"name":"Ali Asguar Jamali","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-09-02","date_to":"2009-09-02","blog_url":"http:\/\/pezeshk55833.blogfa.com\/","background":" According to RSF<\/a>, Ali Asguar Jamali, a blogger and doctor based in the northern city of Qasvin has been arrested along with other activists for \"inciting actions against national security including protests and insults against government officials by means of publications and meetings,\" the news agency Fars reported on 2 September 2009.<\/p>\n Fars, which supports the militant Revolutionary Guards, quoted a Qasvin judge as saying Jamali was arrested as the head of the group of activists and as a \"doctor having immoral relations with his patients.\" The court also claimed that \"alcohol and evidence of membership of counter-revolutionary groups were also found in his office.\" <\/p>\n Jamali, who defends workers' rights and treats the poor free of charge, keeps a blog called \"DR social-democrat<\/a>\". <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ali-asguar-jamali-0","city":"Qasvin","country":"Iran","lat":"36.266819","lon":"50.003811"}},{"item":{"name":"Alireza Firoozi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/alireza-firoozi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-01-02","date_to":"2010-01-02","blog_url":"http:\/\/alirezafiroozi.blogspot.com\/","background":" Blogger, student activist, journalist, and photographer Alireza Firoozi was arrested on January 2, 2010, in the north-western city of Orumieh along with fellow Zanjan University student Sourena Hashemi (released on April 4, 2010). Alireza was taken to Tehran where he was held incommunicado for over 70 days with judiciary officials refusing to inform his family about his whereabouts.<\/p>\n According to recent reports<\/a> and interviews with Alireza Firoozi's mother, there still have been no specific charges brought against him. Based on reports processed by security agencies, it seems Firouzi\u2019s continuing arrest is linked to his work in human rights activism.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/alireza-firoozi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.699686","lon":"51.413269"}},{"item":{"name":"Amir Sadeghi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Amir_Sadeghi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-02-08","date_to":"2010-02-08","blog_url":"http:\/\/tehranlive.org\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=294615784889&ref=nf","background":" Iran Security forces arrested Amir Sadeghi at the office of Farhang-e-Ashti newspaper in Tehran for having published the images of the violent security clampdown on protesters on Ashura (December 27, 2009) on his personal blog (tehranlive.org).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/amir-sadeghi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.692995","lon":"51.416016"}},{"item":{"name":"Arash Naderpour","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-08-22","date_to":"2004-08-22","background":" On August 22, 2004, the judiciary detained six members of Rooydad\u2019s technical staff, among them Arash Naderpour. Arash was held in secret detention centers, without access to visits by his family and lawyer. Arash Naderpour was involved in providing technical assistance sites and played no role in deciding their content and postings.<\/p>\n Arash Naderpour appeared in front of the commission on December 25, 2004.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/arash-naderpour","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"52.207031"}},{"item":{"name":"Arash Sigarchi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/arash_sigarchi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2005-01-16","date_to":"2005-03-16","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.sigarchi.com\/blog\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/arsi\/petition.html","background":" From HRW<\/a>: Arash Sigarchi, former editor of the daily Gilan Emrouz, maintains a blog called Panjareh Eltehab (\u201cWindow of Anguish\u201d) from his home in the northern city of Rasht. His online writings were often critical of the government and he frequently protested the detention of other Iranian bloggers. On January 16, 2005, days after he had given interviews to BBC World Service and the U.S.-based Radio Farda, he was summoned to court and interrogated. The next day, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence arrested him.<\/p>\n On February 2, the revolutionary court in the northern province of Gilan sentenced Sigarchi to fourteen years in prison, but made its ruling public only on February 22. Charges included espionage, \u201caiding and abating hostile governments and opposition groups\u201d by giving interviews to the U.S.-based Radio Farda, endangering national security, and \u201cinsulting Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.\u201d The court based its decision on a report by the Intelligence Ministry agents who arrested Sigarchi. <\/p>\n Sigarchi\u2019s trial violated international standards for fair trials. It was held behind closed doors and in the absence of his lawyer\u2014indeed, he was not allowed to meet with his lawyer for months after his arrest. <\/p>\n Sigarchi\u2019s lawyer, Mohammad Saifzadeh, told Human Rights Watch that his client\u2019s summons, arrest, and the search and seizure of his personal documents were marked by numerous irregularities and illegal actions. Authorities released him on March 16, 2005, after he posted 1 billion rials ($125,000) in bail. He has appealed his conviction.229<\/p>\n After his release, Sigarchi told reporters that the only evidence presented against him was \"a few selected postings from my blog, selected transcripts of my interviews with Radio Farda reporters, and a few of my journalistic writings\u2026 During the trial, I did not have the right to a lawyer. The judge and the court officer explicitly told me there was no need. They encouraged me not to hire a lawyer so my problem could be resolved more easily. But after they issued my sentence, I asked my brother to hire a lawyer.\"<\/p>\n Thereafter, Sigarchi was represented by three prominent Iranian human rights lawyers: Shirin Ebadi, Parviz Jahangard, and Mohammad Seifzadeh.<\/p>\n On June 9, 2005, appeal hearing, Sigarchi\u2019s lawyers rejected all the charges against him and argued that the lower court\u2019s decision was illegal and unsupported by any evidence. The appeals court has yet to issue its ruling.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/arash-sigarchi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Bahman Ahmadi Amouee","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Bahman_Ahmadi-Amouee.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-06-20","date_to":"2009-06-20","blog_url":"http:\/\/amouee.net\/","background":" Amouee, a contributor to reformist newspapers such as Mihan, Hamshahri, Jame'e, Khordad, Norooz, and Sharq, and the author of an eponymous blog, was arrested with his wife, Zhila Bani-Yaghoub, according to news reports. Bani-Yaghoub, editor-in-chief of the Iranian Women's Club, a news Web site focusing on woman's rights, was released on bail on August 19, according to the BBC Persian service.<\/p>\n Amouee was being held in Tehran's Evin Prison, part of the time in solitary confinement, according to news reports. Amouee's wife said the journalist was denied access to his family and lawyer for several weeks, according to Mowjcamp, a news Web site supportive of the reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Amouee's case is a special one: after more than 100 days -- most of them spent in solitary confinement in Evin's notorious section 209, which is reserved for political prisoners -- there has been no report filed of his arrest.<\/p>\n On January 5, 2010, Amouee was sentenced to 34 lashes, along with seven years and four months in prison.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/bahman-ahmadi-amouee","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.692995","lon":"51.405029"}},{"item":{"name":"Esmail Jafari","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Esmail_Jafari.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2008-04-08","date_to":"2008-04-24","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.poutin.blogfa.com\/","background":" <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/esmail-jafari","city":"Bushehr","country":"Iran","lat":"32.512232","lon":"53.964844"}},{"item":{"name":"Fereshteh Ghazi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/fereshteh_ghazi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-10-28","date_to":"2004-12-07","blog_url":"http:\/\/fereshteh.blogfa.com\/","background":" On 28 October, Fershteh Ghazi, who writes about women's issues and works for the daily \"Etemad\" (\"Confidence\"), was arrested by the Tehran morality squad. She was reportedly accused of \"immoral behaviour\", a charge that is often brought against political prisoners in Iran. (IFEX<\/a>) Upon her release, Ms. Ghazi was taken directly to a hospital for treatment due to her poor physical and mental condition. During her forty-day imprisonment, Ms. Ghazi was denied legal counsel.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/fereshteh-ghazi","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Fereydoun Seydi Rad","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/fereydoun-seidi-rad.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2011-03-02","date_to":"2011-03-02","background":" According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Seydi Rad was arrested<\/a> in March 2011 and later sentenced to one year in prison for \"propagating against the regime.\" According to a different source<\/a>, Seydi Rad's sentence is for three years.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/fereydoun-seydi-rad","city":"Arak","country":"Iran","lat":"34.080000","lon":"49.700000"}},{"item":{"name":"Hadi Heidari","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hadi_Heidari.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-10-22","date_to":"2009-10-22","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.haditoons.com","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=167469646566","background":" Renowned cartoonist Hadi Heidari who contributes to several reformist newspapers and heads the website Persian cartoon<\/a> was arrested in the capital Tehran on the evening of 22 October, 2009. <\/p>\n He was among several people arrested while taking part in a religious ceremony in honour of political prisoners, held at the home of Shehaboldin Tabatabai, one of the prisoners close to the reformist party, Participation. Some of them were released the following day but around a dozen others, including Heidari, were moved to Evin prison.<\/p>\n Heidari was cultural editor of the banned daily Etemad-e Melli. Editor of the newspaper, Mohammad Ghochani, a member of its editorial staff, Fayaz Zahed, and website editor, Mohammad Davari, are all still in prison<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hadi-heidari","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Hamed Saber","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hamed_Saber.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2010-06-21","date_to":"2010-08-09","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hamed\/sets\/72157619809375336\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/freehamedsaber.blogspot.com\/","background":" Hamed Saber, a prominent Iranian photo-blogger and computer scientist and winner of a Bronze medal in an international science competition, was arrested for unknown reasons on 21 June 2010 in Tehran while walking in the street. A friend has informed us that it was the first time Hamed was arrested. The same source said several of Hamed's photos <\/a> of the Iranian protest movement have been published in foreign magazines without his knowledge.\n<\/p> Hamed is also the developer of \u201cAccess Flickr<\/a>\u201c, a Firefox internet browser extension that bypasses filters on the photo-sharing website Flickr in Iran, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China and other locations where it is banned. <\/p>\n Aftab News reported<\/a> on 9th of August that Iranian photo-blogger, Hamed Saber<\/a>, was released on bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hamed-saber","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696111","lon":"51.423056"}},{"item":{"name":"Hanif Mazroui","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hanif_Mazroui.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-09-08","date_to":"2004-11-11","blog_url":"http:\/\/hanif.ir\/","background":" Hanif Mazroui is the son of Ali Mazroui, the head of the Association of Iranian Journalists. He was arrested in September 2004 for acting against the Islamic system through his writings. He was detained for 66 days and then released on bail in November 11th 2004.<\/p>\n According to Roozonline.com, on June 21, 2009, security forces had broken into Mr. Mazroui\u2019s house and said they were carrying arrest warrants for his son Hanif who is a journalist and blogger.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hanif-mazroui","country":"Iran","lat":"32.916485","lon":"52.207031"}},{"item":{"name":"Henghameh Shahid","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Henghameh_Shahidi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-06-29","date_to":"2009-11-02","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=61551239981","background":" According to RSF, Henghameh Shahidi was sentenced to six years and 32 days in prison by the 26th chamber of Tehran\u2019s revolutionary court. The journalist and head of the blog Paineveste was arrested on 29 June, 2009. She spent 50 days in solitary confinement in Section 209 of Evin prison before being freed on 2 November 2009 after posting bail of nine million tomans (about 6,300 euros).<\/p>\n Her lawyer, Mohammad Mostafai, said the journalist had been convicted of \u201cacting against national security\u201d, \u201cactivities against the regime in collaboration with the BBC\u201d, which is seen as a \u201ccounter-revolutionary channel\u201d. She was also found guilty of signing petitions against the regime, including the Iranian feminist \u2018one million signatures\u2019 campaign, as well as the campaign against stoning and another urging the UN Human Rights Council to take up a position on the state of human rights in Iran. She was also convicted of writing articles deemed \u201cinsulting\u201d to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on her weblog. Mostafai added that he would be lodging an appeal.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/henghameh-shahid","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Hesam Firoozi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/hesamfiroozi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-03-03","date_to":"2010-03-03","blog_url":"http:\/\/hesamfiroozi.blogfa.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/sosfiroozi.wordpress.com\/english-petition\/","background":" Dr. Hesam Firoozi, a human rights activist, blogger, and physician who has many Iranian political prisoners among his patients, was arrested by intelligence agents on March 3, 2010. According to a RAHANA<\/a> reporter, Dr. Firoozi was arrested at his home at night after he returned from a visit to the house of Alireza Firoozi, his nephew who has also been detained by Iranian authorities. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hesam-firoozi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.678680","lon":"51.423569"}},{"item":{"name":"Hossein Derakhshan","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hossein-Derakhshan.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-11-01","date_to":"2008-11-01","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.hoder.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/freehoder.wordpress.com\/","background":" From Wikipedia<\/a>: Hossein Derakhshan (in Persian: \u062d\u0633\u064a\u0646 \u062f\u0631\u062e\u0634\u0627\u0646; born January 7, 1975), also known as Hoder, is an Iranian weblogger. He is credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran and is called by many journalists as the father of Persian blogging.[2] He also helped to promote podcasting in Iran.<\/p>\n Eariler in August 2007, Derakhshan's Florida-base hosting company, Hosting Matters, had terminated his hosting account as a result of intimidation by Khalaji.<\/p>\n In November 2007, Mehdi Khalaji, a fellow at a neo-conservative think-tank called Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), filed a $2 million libel and defamation lawsuit[16] against Derakhshan, over one of his blog posts in his Persian blog, in which he criticizes Khalaji for his service to the 'enemies' of his people and humanity.<\/p>\n On November 1, 2008, Derakhshan was arrested at his family home in Tehran. He was allowed four calls to his family, each lasting about one minute, during November.<\/p>\n The arrest became known in English-speaking media during late November, starting with an article published by the anti-censorship group Global Voices Online on November 18. A mainstream media report a few days later, by the The Times, claimed that Derakhshan had been accused of spying for Israel. Amnesty International later suggested that he was likely to face accusations of \"insulting religion\".<\/p>\n On December 30, 2008, Alireza Jamshidi, the speaker of the Judicial system of Iran confirmed Derakhshan's arrest, but did not mention any Israel-related accusations. Jamshidi said that Derakhshan is in the custody of the Islamic Revolutionary Court and his case is in early discovery phase. Jamshidi mentioned that among Derakhshan's accusations is what he had written about the \"Pure Imams\".<\/p>\n Nineteen Iranian bloggers published a letter \"categorically condemn[ing] the circumstances surrounding Derakhshan's arrest and detention and demand[ing] his immediate release\". A website \"Free the blogfather\" was created by supporters of Derakhshan in order to campaign for his freedom. Before an earlier return to Iran in 2005, Derakhshan published recommendations of what to do if he or someone else were arrested in Iran, including requests to \"spread the word\", to \"get the English-language media involved\" and to \"get the publicity translated [into Persian]\" and to \"keep it up\".<\/p>\n As of late April 2009, the New York Times stated that Derakhshan remained under detention and had not been charged.<\/p>\n On September 28, 2010, Mashregh News reported<\/a> that Hossein Derakhshan has been found guilty of \u201cconspiring with hostile governments, disseminating anti-Islamic propaganda, disseminating anti-revolutionary propaganda, blasphemy, annd operating and managing obscene pornography websites,\u201d and was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison.<\/p>\n An informed source told<\/a> the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Hossein Derakhshan <\/a>was released on December, 9th, 2010, on the unprecedented bail amount of $1.5 million. Derakhshan had requested a prison furlough after a lower court sentenced him to 19.5 years in prison in September.<\/p>\n Since 2010, Derakhshan has been granted at least two brief prison furloughs, but remains in Evin Prison.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hossein-derakhshan","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"53.613281"}},{"item":{"name":"Jila Baniyaghoob","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Jil_Baniyaghoob.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-06-20","date_to":"2009-08-24","blog_url":"http:\/\/irwomen.net\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/defenders\/hrd_iran\/hrd_iran_page.aspx?item=57&c=i6","background":" Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, freelance reporter and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani<\/a> (Focus on Iranian Women), Iran. Baniyaghoob works in one of the most restrictive environments for both journalists and women in the world. Still, she has fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women. She has been fired from several jobs because she refuses to censor the subject matter of her reporting and several of her media outlets have been closed by the government. She has travelled throughout the Middle East, writing accounts of the lives of women and refugees during times of conflict. The topics of her reporting make her a target of the Iranian government. She has been beaten, arrested and imprisoned numerous times.Jila won the 2009 Courage in Journalism Award for fearlessly reporting on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women.<\/p>\n Jila was arrasted on June 20th, 2009, and released on 24 August 2009, on bail of approximately $200,000, after spending two months in incommunicado detention. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/jila-baniyaghoob","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Karim Arghandehpour","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-06-17","date_to":"2009-06-17","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.futurama.ir","background":" Karim is a blogger who blogs at Futurama<\/a> and reporter for the pro-reformist newspapers Salam, Vaghieh and Afaghieh. Karim was arrested on 17 June, 2009, according to Tehran Bureau news Web site.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/karim-arghandehpour","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Mahbobeh Abasgholizadeh","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mahbobeh_Abasgholizadeh_.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-11-01","date_to":"2004-11-30","background":" <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mahbobeh-abasgholizadeh","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"53.964844"}},{"item":{"name":"Massoud Ghoreishi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/masoud_ghoreishi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-08-07","date_to":"2004-11-11","background":" In 2004, followingthe Majlis elections, the government attempted tocrackdown on the Iranian blogging community. Massoud Ghoreishi, a blogger who worked for Emrooz, an Iranian online journal was arrested in August 2005 and was released three months later on bail. He was believed to be helping Rooydad, new websites close to the major reformist party, Iran Participation Front (Jebhe-ye Mosharekat).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/massoud-ghoreishi","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"53.261719"}},{"item":{"name":"Mazaher R","status":"Unknown","date_from":"2009-02-04","date_to":"2009-02-04","background":" According to<\/a> several sources an Iranian Christian blogger, Mazaher R, was arrested in the city of Isfahan in Iran about one month ago. He is a convert from Islam and he used to write about Bible in his blog. On 23 February <\/a>the Iranian police raided the house of the father of the Christian blogger Mazaher R, seizing computers, printers and Christian books, among other things. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mazaher-r","city":"Isfahan","country":"Iran","lat":"32.602362","lon":"51.613770"}},{"item":{"name":"Mehdi Khazali","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/mehdi-khazali.jpeg","status":"Released","date_from":"2010-10-13","date_to":"2010-11-12","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.drkhazali.com\/","background":" According to Payvand.com<\/a>, blogger<\/a> Mehdi Khazali, head of Iran's Medical Data Bank and son of hardliner, Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, was arrested on October 13, 2010, by Iranian authorities. He was summoned to Evin Prison and arrested for \"activities against national security and disturbing public minds.\" In the past two years, he has repeatedly criticized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his blog and website.<\/p>\n Mehdi Khazali wrote condemning blogs regarding the violent reaction of the government to the widespread protests to the alleged vote fraud in the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. <\/p>\n Several news sites reported <\/a>that Mehdi<\/a> was released on November 12th, 2010, on 200000 dollars bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mehdi-khazali","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696111","lon":"51.423056"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohamad Reza Nasab Abdolahi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mohamad_Reza_Nasab_Abdolahi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2005-02-23","date_to":"2005-08-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.iranreform.persianblog.com","background":" From HRW<\/a>: On February 23, 2005, following a closed-door trial held without his lawyer, Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdullahi was sentenced to six months in prison on appeal for insulting the Supreme Leader and spreading anti-government propaganda. He was imprisoned five days later. Abdullahi, a university student, human rights activist, editor of a student newspaper, and blogger in the central Iranian city of Kerman, served six months in an Iranian prison for posting an entry on his blog, Webnegar (\u201cWeb writer<\/a>\u201d). The offending post, titled \u201cI Want to Know,\u201d was addressed to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and criticized the government\u2019s repression of \u201ccivil and personal rights and liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohamad-reza-nasab-abdolahi","city":"Kerman","country":"Iran","lat":"30.280270","lon":"57.067020"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohammad Ali Abtahi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/abtahi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-06-16","date_to":"2009-11-22","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.webneveshteha.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.freeabtahi.com\/?lang=en","background":" From Wikipedia<\/a>: Mohammad Ali Abtahi<\/a>, former reformist vice president and an adviser to Mehdi Karoubi<\/a>, a reformist candidate. Mr Abtahi used to update his blog<\/a> each day for several years and share his opinion on different topics, including Iranian issues.<\/p>\n Mohammad Ali Abtahi was arrested on June 16, 2009 during the aftermath of the 2009 presidential elections and subsequent protests. He reportedly made a videotaped confession following his arrest, in which he stated that the opposition\u2019s claims of a stolen election were false, and that opposition leaders had conspired in advance to misrepresent the vote. According to the statement, former presidents, Mohammad Khatami and Rafsanjani had taken an \"oath\" not to abandon each other in their support for former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi as they prepared to stage a Velvet Revolution in order to avenge their defeat in Iranian presidential election, 2005. According to human rights groups, similar confessions by Iranian political prisoners are almost always obtained under duress.<\/p>\n In response members of his and other arrested reformists gathered at his home issued a statement denouncing his confession, saying \u201cnot only do we not accept the confession, we also know that Abtahi said these things due to a long period of imprisonment for the purpose of obtaining a confession.\u201d In a court hearing, his wife Fahimeh Mousavinejad, dismissed her husband\u2019s confession as false and \"not at all in Mr. Abtahi\u2019s style. ... As his family, we know the way he expresses himself. Many people have read his blog. The sentences he was using were not his own.\u201d<\/p>\n Abtahi's photos from the trial show signs of probable torture use during his imprisonment.<\/p>\n Following Abtahi's record as the first Iranian cabinet member to blog while in office, on August 26, 2009, he also became the first known Iranian prisoner to blog while still at prison.[7] A few days after that prison blog entry, however, his website was suddenly taken offline.<\/p>\n According to the BBC<\/a>, on November 22, 2009, Mr Abtahi has been temporarily released on bail of 7bn rials ($425,000) after 160 days in detention. Irna quoted an unnamed court official as saying: \"Abtahi was sentenced to six years in prison for acting against national security and propaganda activity.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohammad-ali-abtahi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.710838","lon":"51.416016"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohammad Pour Abdoullah","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mohammad_Pour_Abdoullah.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-01-12","date_to":"2009-01-12","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.feuer17.blogspot.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/hr-hr.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=310668455104","background":" RSF<\/a> reports that Mohammad Pour Abdoullah, the editor of the blog Pishro<\/a> (Avant-Garde), has been arrested on 12 January 2009 for writing about a crackdown on the student movement, prison conditions and the interrogation methods used by intelligence ministry agents. <\/p>\n He was kept in solitary confinement and subjected to constant pressure for 23 days after his arrest. As he refused to admit to the charges brought against him, he is still awaiting trial. An initial hearing was to have been held on 21 February, but the judge adjourned it indefinitely, without explanation. Thereafter, Abdoullah was moved to an individual cell and then to Ghezel Hessar, a prison for non-political detainees. <\/p>\n Mohammad Pour Abdullah was sentenced on 14 December 2009 to six years in prison on charges of anti-government publicity and activities against national security.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohammad-pour-abdoullah","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohammad Reza Pourshajari","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-12-12","date_to":"2010-12-12","background":" Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, a blogger also known by the name Siamak Mehr, was arrested on September 12, 2010. According to reports, Pourshajari was scheduled<\/a> to be tried on December 21, 2011 on charges of insulting the Prophet and \"enmity with God,\" charges that could bring the death penalty.<\/p>\n <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohammad-reza-pourshajari","city":"Karaj","country":"Iran","lat":"35.827110","lon":"50.980370"}},{"item":{"name":"Mojtaba Lotfi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mojtaba-Lotfi_.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-10-08","date_to":"2008-10-08","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/petitions\/Mojtabalotfi\/","background":" Theologian and online journalist Mojtaba Lotfi\u2019s arrest on 8 October for a posting a sermon by Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri - a well-known opponent of the Islamic revolution\u2019s Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - online.Formerly a journalist with the pro-reform daily Khordad, which the authorities closed in 2000, Lotfi was first arrested in May 2004 in Qom after posting an article entitled \u201cRespect for human rights in cases involving the clergy\u201d on www.naqshineh.com<\/a>, a website about Qom, which the government of Iran has blocked since March 2004 on the orders of the Qom authorities. He was sentenced in August 2004 to three years and ten months in prison for disseminating \u201clies\u201d online. He was later released on bail pending the outcome of an appeal hearing, for which a date was never set. (RSF<\/a>)<\/p>\n According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Lotfi was transferred<\/a> in 2010 to internal exile in the remote village of Ashtian.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mojtaba-lotfi","city":"Qom","country":"Iran","lat":"32.324276","lon":"53.613281"}},{"item":{"name":"Mojtaba Saminejad","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/saminejad.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-11-01","date_to":"2005-01-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.madyariran.net\/","background":" As a student, Saminejad was a writer and blogger. In 2004 Reporters Without Borders listed his as one of the Best blogs defending freedom of expression. Saminejad's initial arrest on November 1, 2004, followed the publication on his blog of the arrests of three other bloggers. He was released on bail on January 27, 2005, relaunched his blog at a new address, and was promptly re-arrested on February 12, 2005. His bail was doubled to $125,000, which he could not pay.He was charged with \"insulting the prophets\" (punishable by the death penalty under Article 512 of the Iranian Islamic penal code), \"endangering national security\", and \"insulting the Supreme Leader\" (the head of state of Iran). On June 2, 2005, he was found guilty of \"insulting the Supreme Leader\", and sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Judge Saadat of Revolutionary Court 13.On June 28, 2005, he was found not guilty of \"insulting the prophets\". One month later he was sentenced to an extra ten months in prison for incitement to \u201cimmorality\u201d. During his arrest, Saminejad was allegedly held in solitary confinement for 88 days and subjected to beatings and torture. He was taken in handcuffs to sit his exams at Tehran\u2019s Azad University on 21 January 2006. After 21 months, on September 13, 2006 he was released from prison, and started blogging again. He also works with an Iranian human-rights group, Human Rights Activists in Iran, which gathers information about how Iranians are repressed. In 2009 he signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the Iranian Persecution of Bah\u00e1'\u00eds. Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mojtaba-saminejad","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Najmeh Oumidparvar","status":"Released","date_from":"2005-03-02","date_to":"2005-03-26","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.faryadebeseda.persianblog.com.","background":" On March 2, 2005, Najmeh Oumidparvar, the wife of the ten arrested blogger, Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdullahi, was arrested in her home. She had posted messages from her husband on her own blog<\/a>. On the eve of her arrest, she had given an interview to the German radio station Deutsche Welle. She was four months pregnant. After twenty-four days in custody, Oumidparvar was freed on bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/najmeh-oumidparvar","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Navid Mohebbi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/navid_mohebbi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-09-18","date_to":"2010-09-18","blog_url":"http:\/\/navidmohebbi3.blogfa.com\/","background":" Reporters Without Borders reported<\/a> the arrest of the 18-year-old blogger Navid Mohebbi at his home in Amol on 18 September by eight intelligence ministry officials. Acording to RWB, Mohebbi is facing the possibility of a long prison sentence. A women\u2019s rights activist who keeps a blog called \u201cThe writings of Navid Mohebbi\u201d (http:\/\/navidmohebbi3.blogfa.com\/<\/a>), he had been summoned and questioned several times by various intelligence services in the past year. He was beaten at the moment of his arrest and has been held in cell with ordinary offenders ever since.\"<\/p>\n Navid Mohebbi, is currently being tried behind closed doors before a revolutionary court in the northern city of Amol. His lawyer is not being allowed to attend the trial, which began on 14 November.<\/p>\n Mohebbi has been accused of \u201cactivities contrary to national security\u201d and \u201cinsulting the Islamic Republic\u2019s founder and current leader (...) by means of foreign media.\u201d He has also been accused of being member of the \u201cOne Million Signatures\u201d movement, a campaign to collect signatures to a petition for changes to laws that discriminate against women.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/navid-mohebbi","city":"Amol","country":"Iran","lat":"36.466944","lon":"52.356944"}},{"item":{"name":"Omid Memarian","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/omied_memarian.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-10-10","date_to":"2004-12-04","blog_url":"http:\/\/omidmemarian.com","background":" On 10 October, 2004, Memarian was arrested on the orders of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office's Ninth Chamber. He was detained for posting articles on several reformist newspapers, his blogs and online publications, and was charged with spreading a \"dark picture of the country and stoking women's issues.\" Five days later the authorities also searched Memarian's home and confiscated his personal notes and computer.[citation needed] He was detained until mid-December 2004. According to Human Rights Watch, Memarian and other journalists who had been detained were subjected to torture and solitary confinement, but before their release they were coerced into signing a confession letter which stated that they had been detained under good conditions.<\/p>\n Shortly before his arrest in 2004, Memarian had tried to attend a conference on Iranian civil society in New York. He had obtained a US visa, but en route in Frankfurt, US authorities refused to allow him to board his flight, saying that he was on a No Fly List. They provided no other information. He was arrested a few days after his return to Tehran.<\/p>\n Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/omid-memarian","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"52.558594"}},{"item":{"name":"Omidreza Mirsayafi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/omidreza-mirsayafi.jpg","status":"Deceased","date_from":"2008-04-22","date_to":"2008-04-22","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.march18.org\/","background":" Mirsayafi, 28, author of the cultural news blog, Rooznegar, was arrested on April 22, 2008, released 41 days later on bail, then stood trial on November 22, and was charged under article 514 of the criminal code. He was freed, then detained on February 7 without warning. He was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging in \u201cpropaganda\u201d against the Islamic Republic of Iran. He died in prison a little over one month later, on March 18<\/a>, 2009. Mirsayafi was 29 years old. His brother, Amir-Parviz Mirsayafi, says<\/a> was beaten to death. \"Omid Reza was the first blogger to die in prison<\/a> and his death reveals that getting censored is far from the worst thing that can happen to a blogger<\/em>\".<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/omidreza-mirsayafi","country":"Iran","lat":"32.620870","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Reza Valizadeh","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/reza_valizadeh.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2007-11-27","date_to":"2007-12-05","blog_url":"http:\/\/eistgah.blogfa.com\/","background":" Reza Valizadeh, a journalist and blogger, was the object of a complaint from the Iranian president's office and was detained on November 2007. Several Iranian blogs and websites argue the main reason he was arrested was because he revealed that Ahmadinejad's security staff bought four dogs from Germany for about $150,000 each. He was released after a few weeks of detention.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/reza-valizadeh","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"52.558594"}},{"item":{"name":"Rojin Mohammadi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/rojin.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2011-11-14","date_to":"2011-11-14","background":" Iranian blogger Rojin Mohammadi was arrested<\/a> on November 14, 2011 upon returning to her home country of Iran from the Philippines. According to HRANA, she was released then subsequently summoned<\/a> on November 21, interrogated, and imprisoned on November 23. She is currently held at Evin Prison.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/rojin-mohammadi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696111","lon":"51.423056"}},{"item":{"name":"Roozbeh Mirebrahimi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Roozbeh_Mirebrahimi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-10-27","date_to":"2004-11-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/shabnameha.wordpress.com\/","background":" Roozbeh Mirebrahimi was arrested in fall 2004 because of hid work as a political editor for several reformist newspapers in Iran, as well as his critical comments about the regime on his personal blog and on other Web sites.<\/p>\n Mirebrahimi spent 60 days in solitary confinement. He was interrogated and tortured for days on end. <\/p>\n After 60 days, Mirebrahimi was released on bail because of international pressure and help from government reformists. In February 2009, the court sentenced \u0627\u0647\u0629 to two years\u2019 imprisonment and 84 lashes. Two other charges are still under review.<\/p>\n Mirebrahimi now blogs from New York City, where he is currently the International Journalist in Residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/roozbeh-mirebrahimi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Saeed Malekpour","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-10-01","date_to":"2008-10-01","background":" Saeed Malekpour<\/a>,\n a 36-year old web and circumvention tool developer based in Canada, was\n arrested over several charges, including \u201cacting against national \nsecurity through propaganda against the Islamic Republic,\u201d \u201cinsulting \nand desecrating the principles of Islam,\u201d and \u201cproduction and \npublication of obscene materials through computer systems.\u201d United for Iran reports<\/a>\n that he had created a photo-uploading program, and that it had been \nused to upload pornographic images without his knowledge. He was \nsentenced to death last week as a \u201ccorrupter of the earth.\u201d While the \ngovernment officially acknowledges executing 17 people since the start \nof the new year, Amnesty International reports<\/a> receiving information that the true number may be closer to 39 executions. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/saeed-malekpour","country":"Iran","lat":"32.427908","lon":"53.688046"}},{"item":{"name":"Shahnaz Gholami","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Shahnaz_Gholami.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2008-11-09","date_to":"2009-01-17","blog_url":"http:\/\/azarwomen.blogfa.com\/","background":" Shahnaz Gholami, the editor of the \"Azerzan\" blog,was arrested on November 9,2008 in her house by intelligence agents.She had been sentenced to six months of imprisonment on September 8, 2008, in branch no. 1 of Tabriz revolutionary court for propaganda against the state. Also before this she had been in jail for five years (1989-1993) in Tabriz prison (ADAPP<\/a>). Gholami spent 69 days in custody and was released from prison on 17 January on bail of 200 million toman [about 200,000 dollars).(RSF<\/a>)<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/shahnaz-gholami","city":"Tabriz","country":"Iran","lat":"32.620870","lon":"53.261719"}},{"item":{"name":"Shiva Nazarahari","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Shiva_Nazar_Ahari_0.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-12-20","date_to":"2010-09-12","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Free-Shiva-nazar-ahari\/120167939239","background":" A woman journalist, blogger and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and other human rights groups, was arrested at her workplace on 14 June, 2009 in Tehran. The security forces had searched her house the previous night in her absence and confiscated some of her personal possessions. After spending 102 days in detention, she was released on 23 September 2009 on $200,000 bail. She spent 33 days of her detention in solitary confinement.<\/p>\n She was arrested<\/a> for the second time on 20 December 2009, and has remained in prison without furlough and without any explanation from authorities about the reasons for her imprisonment. According to <\/a>several news websites, Shiva was released<\/a> on $500,000 bail on 12 September 2010 . She went to trial in handcuffs in early September and was accused of involvement with the organization, People's Mujahedin of Iran<\/a>.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/shiva-nazarahari","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Sina Motalebi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Sina_Motallebi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2003-04-20","date_to":"2003-05-14","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.rooznegar.com\/","background":" On 20 April 2003 he was arrested by intelligence division of law enforcement because of his writings in his weblog and newspapers, and his interviews with foreign media.<\/p>\n He was detained 23 days in solitary confinement in a secret detention centre before he was released on bail.<\/p>\n In December 2003 Sina left the country for the Netherlands where he sought asylum. He recalled his experiences in his weblog as well as a joint press conference held by Human Rights Watch and Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res (in June 2004).<\/p>\n The judiciary responded by arresting his father, Saeed Motalebi and charged him with \u201cassisting the escape of an accused person,\u201d an apparent reference to his son\u2019s departure from Iran, despite the fact that Sina Motalebi left Iran legally.<\/p>\n Saeed Motalebi was detained for 10 days in a secret detention centre before being released.<\/p>\n Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/sina-motalebi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"34.089061","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Vahid Asghari","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-05-11","date_to":"2008-05-11","background":" Vahid Asghari, a 24-year-old student in India, was arrested on May 11, 2008 at Tehran Airport and accused of hosting websites with \u201cpornographic\u201d content critical of the government. Amnesty International reports<\/a>\n that Asghari wrote to a judge that \u201che had been subjected to torture, \nforced to make a televised \u2018confession\u2019 and forced to make spying \nallegations against high profile blogger Hossein Derakhshan<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/vahid-asghari","country":"Iran","lat":"32.427908","lon":"53.688046"}}]}
![Committee of Human Rights Reporters<\/a>, Ahmad has been condemned to 6 years imprisonment, 5 years exile and lifetime prohibition from social and political activities.<\/p>\nOn Dec. 17, 2009, Zeidabadi won World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award for 2010<\/a>.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ahmad-zaid-abadi","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Ali Asguar Jamali","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/asguar.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-09-02","date_to":"2009-09-02","blog_url":"http:\/\/pezeshk55833.blogfa.com\/","background":"Ali Asguar Jamali is a blogger and doctor based in the northern city of Qasvin who was arrested on September 1, 2009 for \"inciting actions against national security including protests and insults against government officials.\" Jamali, who is known for treating the poor free of charge and who defends workers' rights on his blog, keeps a blog entitled \"DR social-democrat\" (http:\/\/pezeshk55833.blogfa.com\/<\/a>).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ali-asguar-jamali","city":"Qasvin","country":"Iran","lat":"36.268636","lon":"50.007019"}},{"item":{"name":"Ali Asguar Jamali","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-09-02","date_to":"2009-09-02","blog_url":"http:\/\/pezeshk55833.blogfa.com\/","background":"According to RSF<\/a>, Ali Asguar Jamali, a blogger and doctor based in the northern city of Qasvin has been arrested along with other activists for \"inciting actions against national security including protests and insults against government officials by means of publications and meetings,\" the news agency Fars reported on 2 September 2009.<\/p>\nFars, which supports the militant Revolutionary Guards, quoted a Qasvin judge as saying Jamali was arrested as the head of the group of activists and as a \"doctor having immoral relations with his patients.\" The court also claimed that \"alcohol and evidence of membership of counter-revolutionary groups were also found in his office.\" <\/p>\n Jamali, who defends workers' rights and treats the poor free of charge, keeps a blog called \"DR social-democrat<\/a>\". <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/ali-asguar-jamali-0","city":"Qasvin","country":"Iran","lat":"36.266819","lon":"50.003811"}},{"item":{"name":"Alireza Firoozi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/alireza-firoozi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-01-02","date_to":"2010-01-02","blog_url":"http:\/\/alirezafiroozi.blogspot.com\/","background":"Blogger, student activist, journalist, and photographer Alireza Firoozi was arrested on January 2, 2010, in the north-western city of Orumieh along with fellow Zanjan University student Sourena Hashemi (released on April 4, 2010). Alireza was taken to Tehran where he was held incommunicado for over 70 days with judiciary officials refusing to inform his family about his whereabouts.<\/p>\nAccording to recent reports<\/a> and interviews with Alireza Firoozi's mother, there still have been no specific charges brought against him. Based on reports processed by security agencies, it seems Firouzi\u2019s continuing arrest is linked to his work in human rights activism.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/alireza-firoozi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.699686","lon":"51.413269"}},{"item":{"name":"Amir Sadeghi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Amir_Sadeghi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-02-08","date_to":"2010-02-08","blog_url":"http:\/\/tehranlive.org\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=294615784889&ref=nf","background":"Iran Security forces arrested Amir Sadeghi at the office of Farhang-e-Ashti newspaper in Tehran for having published the images of the violent security clampdown on protesters on Ashura (December 27, 2009) on his personal blog (tehranlive.org).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/amir-sadeghi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.692995","lon":"51.416016"}},{"item":{"name":"Arash Naderpour","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-08-22","date_to":"2004-08-22","background":"On August 22, 2004, the judiciary detained six members of Rooydad\u2019s technical staff, among them Arash Naderpour. Arash was held in secret detention centers, without access to visits by his family and lawyer. Arash Naderpour was involved in providing technical assistance sites and played no role in deciding their content and postings.<\/p>\nArash Naderpour appeared in front of the commission on December 25, 2004.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/arash-naderpour","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"52.207031"}},{"item":{"name":"Arash Sigarchi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/arash_sigarchi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2005-01-16","date_to":"2005-03-16","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.sigarchi.com\/blog\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/arsi\/petition.html","background":"From HRW<\/a>: Arash Sigarchi, former editor of the daily Gilan Emrouz, maintains a blog called Panjareh Eltehab (\u201cWindow of Anguish\u201d) from his home in the northern city of Rasht. His online writings were often critical of the government and he frequently protested the detention of other Iranian bloggers. On January 16, 2005, days after he had given interviews to BBC World Service and the U.S.-based Radio Farda, he was summoned to court and interrogated. The next day, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence arrested him.<\/p>\nOn February 2, the revolutionary court in the northern province of Gilan sentenced Sigarchi to fourteen years in prison, but made its ruling public only on February 22. Charges included espionage, \u201caiding and abating hostile governments and opposition groups\u201d by giving interviews to the U.S.-based Radio Farda, endangering national security, and \u201cinsulting Imam Khomeini and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.\u201d The court based its decision on a report by the Intelligence Ministry agents who arrested Sigarchi. <\/p>\nSigarchi\u2019s trial violated international standards for fair trials. It was held behind closed doors and in the absence of his lawyer\u2014indeed, he was not allowed to meet with his lawyer for months after his arrest. <\/p>\nSigarchi\u2019s lawyer, Mohammad Saifzadeh, told Human Rights Watch that his client\u2019s summons, arrest, and the search and seizure of his personal documents were marked by numerous irregularities and illegal actions. Authorities released him on March 16, 2005, after he posted 1 billion rials ($125,000) in bail. He has appealed his conviction.229<\/p>\nAfter his release, Sigarchi told reporters that the only evidence presented against him was \"a few selected postings from my blog, selected transcripts of my interviews with Radio Farda reporters, and a few of my journalistic writings\u2026 During the trial, I did not have the right to a lawyer. The judge and the court officer explicitly told me there was no need. They encouraged me not to hire a lawyer so my problem could be resolved more easily. But after they issued my sentence, I asked my brother to hire a lawyer.\"<\/p>\nThereafter, Sigarchi was represented by three prominent Iranian human rights lawyers: Shirin Ebadi, Parviz Jahangard, and Mohammad Seifzadeh.<\/p>\nOn June 9, 2005, appeal hearing, Sigarchi\u2019s lawyers rejected all the charges against him and argued that the lower court\u2019s decision was illegal and unsupported by any evidence. The appeals court has yet to issue its ruling.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/arash-sigarchi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Bahman Ahmadi Amouee","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Bahman_Ahmadi-Amouee.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-06-20","date_to":"2009-06-20","blog_url":"http:\/\/amouee.net\/","background":"Amouee, a contributor to reformist newspapers such as Mihan, Hamshahri, Jame'e, Khordad, Norooz, and Sharq, and the author of an eponymous blog, was arrested with his wife, Zhila Bani-Yaghoub, according to news reports. Bani-Yaghoub, editor-in-chief of the Iranian Women's Club, a news Web site focusing on woman's rights, was released on bail on August 19, according to the BBC Persian service.<\/p>\nAmouee was being held in Tehran's Evin Prison, part of the time in solitary confinement, according to news reports. Amouee's wife said the journalist was denied access to his family and lawyer for several weeks, according to Mowjcamp, a news Web site supportive of the reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Amouee's case is a special one: after more than 100 days -- most of them spent in solitary confinement in Evin's notorious section 209, which is reserved for political prisoners -- there has been no report filed of his arrest.<\/p>\nOn January 5, 2010, Amouee was sentenced to 34 lashes, along with seven years and four months in prison.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/bahman-ahmadi-amouee","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.692995","lon":"51.405029"}},{"item":{"name":"Esmail Jafari","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Esmail_Jafari.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2008-04-08","date_to":"2008-04-24","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.poutin.blogfa.com\/","background":"<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/esmail-jafari","city":"Bushehr","country":"Iran","lat":"32.512232","lon":"53.964844"}},{"item":{"name":"Fereshteh Ghazi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/fereshteh_ghazi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-10-28","date_to":"2004-12-07","blog_url":"http:\/\/fereshteh.blogfa.com\/","background":"On 28 October, Fershteh Ghazi, who writes about women's issues and works for the daily \"Etemad\" (\"Confidence\"), was arrested by the Tehran morality squad. She was reportedly accused of \"immoral behaviour\", a charge that is often brought against political prisoners in Iran. (IFEX<\/a>) Upon her release, Ms. Ghazi was taken directly to a hospital for treatment due to her poor physical and mental condition. During her forty-day imprisonment, Ms. Ghazi was denied legal counsel.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/fereshteh-ghazi","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Fereydoun Seydi Rad","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/fereydoun-seidi-rad.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2011-03-02","date_to":"2011-03-02","background":"According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Seydi Rad was arrested<\/a> in March 2011 and later sentenced to one year in prison for \"propagating against the regime.\" According to a different source<\/a>, Seydi Rad's sentence is for three years.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/fereydoun-seydi-rad","city":"Arak","country":"Iran","lat":"34.080000","lon":"49.700000"}},{"item":{"name":"Hadi Heidari","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hadi_Heidari.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-10-22","date_to":"2009-10-22","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.haditoons.com","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=167469646566","background":"Renowned cartoonist Hadi Heidari who contributes to several reformist newspapers and heads the website Persian cartoon<\/a> was arrested in the capital Tehran on the evening of 22 October, 2009. <\/p>\nHe was among several people arrested while taking part in a religious ceremony in honour of political prisoners, held at the home of Shehaboldin Tabatabai, one of the prisoners close to the reformist party, Participation. Some of them were released the following day but around a dozen others, including Heidari, were moved to Evin prison.<\/p>\nHeidari was cultural editor of the banned daily Etemad-e Melli. Editor of the newspaper, Mohammad Ghochani, a member of its editorial staff, Fayaz Zahed, and website editor, Mohammad Davari, are all still in prison<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hadi-heidari","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Hamed Saber","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hamed_Saber.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2010-06-21","date_to":"2010-08-09","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hamed\/sets\/72157619809375336\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/freehamedsaber.blogspot.com\/","background":"Hamed Saber, a prominent Iranian photo-blogger and computer scientist and winner of a Bronze medal in an international science competition, was arrested for unknown reasons on 21 June 2010 in Tehran while walking in the street. A friend has informed us that it was the first time Hamed was arrested. The same source said several of Hamed's photos <\/a> of the Iranian protest movement have been published in foreign magazines without his knowledge.\n<\/p>Hamed is also the developer of \u201cAccess Flickr<\/a>\u201c, a Firefox internet browser extension that bypasses filters on the photo-sharing website Flickr in Iran, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China and other locations where it is banned. <\/p>\nAftab News reported<\/a> on 9th of August that Iranian photo-blogger, Hamed Saber<\/a>, was released on bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hamed-saber","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696111","lon":"51.423056"}},{"item":{"name":"Hanif Mazroui","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hanif_Mazroui.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-09-08","date_to":"2004-11-11","blog_url":"http:\/\/hanif.ir\/","background":"Hanif Mazroui is the son of Ali Mazroui, the head of the Association of Iranian Journalists. He was arrested in September 2004 for acting against the Islamic system through his writings. He was detained for 66 days and then released on bail in November 11th 2004.<\/p>\nAccording to Roozonline.com, on June 21, 2009, security forces had broken into Mr. Mazroui\u2019s house and said they were carrying arrest warrants for his son Hanif who is a journalist and blogger.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hanif-mazroui","country":"Iran","lat":"32.916485","lon":"52.207031"}},{"item":{"name":"Henghameh Shahid","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Henghameh_Shahidi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-06-29","date_to":"2009-11-02","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=61551239981","background":"According to RSF, Henghameh Shahidi was sentenced to six years and 32 days in prison by the 26th chamber of Tehran\u2019s revolutionary court. The journalist and head of the blog Paineveste was arrested on 29 June, 2009. She spent 50 days in solitary confinement in Section 209 of Evin prison before being freed on 2 November 2009 after posting bail of nine million tomans (about 6,300 euros).<\/p>\nHer lawyer, Mohammad Mostafai, said the journalist had been convicted of \u201cacting against national security\u201d, \u201cactivities against the regime in collaboration with the BBC\u201d, which is seen as a \u201ccounter-revolutionary channel\u201d. She was also found guilty of signing petitions against the regime, including the Iranian feminist \u2018one million signatures\u2019 campaign, as well as the campaign against stoning and another urging the UN Human Rights Council to take up a position on the state of human rights in Iran. She was also convicted of writing articles deemed \u201cinsulting\u201d to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on her weblog. Mostafai added that he would be lodging an appeal.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/henghameh-shahid","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Hesam Firoozi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/hesamfiroozi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-03-03","date_to":"2010-03-03","blog_url":"http:\/\/hesamfiroozi.blogfa.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/sosfiroozi.wordpress.com\/english-petition\/","background":"Dr. Hesam Firoozi, a human rights activist, blogger, and physician who has many Iranian political prisoners among his patients, was arrested by intelligence agents on March 3, 2010. According to a RAHANA<\/a> reporter, Dr. Firoozi was arrested at his home at night after he returned from a visit to the house of Alireza Firoozi, his nephew who has also been detained by Iranian authorities. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hesam-firoozi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.678680","lon":"51.423569"}},{"item":{"name":"Hossein Derakhshan","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Hossein-Derakhshan.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-11-01","date_to":"2008-11-01","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.hoder.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/freehoder.wordpress.com\/","background":"From Wikipedia<\/a>: Hossein Derakhshan (in Persian: \u062d\u0633\u064a\u0646 \u062f\u0631\u062e\u0634\u0627\u0646; born January 7, 1975), also known as Hoder, is an Iranian weblogger. He is credited with starting the blogging revolution in Iran and is called by many journalists as the father of Persian blogging.[2] He also helped to promote podcasting in Iran.<\/p>\nEariler in August 2007, Derakhshan's Florida-base hosting company, Hosting Matters, had terminated his hosting account as a result of intimidation by Khalaji.<\/p>\nIn November 2007, Mehdi Khalaji, a fellow at a neo-conservative think-tank called Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), filed a $2 million libel and defamation lawsuit[16] against Derakhshan, over one of his blog posts in his Persian blog, in which he criticizes Khalaji for his service to the 'enemies' of his people and humanity.<\/p>\nOn November 1, 2008, Derakhshan was arrested at his family home in Tehran. He was allowed four calls to his family, each lasting about one minute, during November.<\/p>\nThe arrest became known in English-speaking media during late November, starting with an article published by the anti-censorship group Global Voices Online on November 18. A mainstream media report a few days later, by the The Times, claimed that Derakhshan had been accused of spying for Israel. Amnesty International later suggested that he was likely to face accusations of \"insulting religion\".<\/p>\nOn December 30, 2008, Alireza Jamshidi, the speaker of the Judicial system of Iran confirmed Derakhshan's arrest, but did not mention any Israel-related accusations. Jamshidi said that Derakhshan is in the custody of the Islamic Revolutionary Court and his case is in early discovery phase. Jamshidi mentioned that among Derakhshan's accusations is what he had written about the \"Pure Imams\".<\/p>\nNineteen Iranian bloggers published a letter \"categorically condemn[ing] the circumstances surrounding Derakhshan's arrest and detention and demand[ing] his immediate release\". A website \"Free the blogfather\" was created by supporters of Derakhshan in order to campaign for his freedom. Before an earlier return to Iran in 2005, Derakhshan published recommendations of what to do if he or someone else were arrested in Iran, including requests to \"spread the word\", to \"get the English-language media involved\" and to \"get the publicity translated [into Persian]\" and to \"keep it up\".<\/p>\nAs of late April 2009, the New York Times stated that Derakhshan remained under detention and had not been charged.<\/p>\nOn September 28, 2010, Mashregh News reported<\/a> that Hossein Derakhshan has been found guilty of \u201cconspiring with hostile governments, disseminating anti-Islamic propaganda, disseminating anti-revolutionary propaganda, blasphemy, annd operating and managing obscene pornography websites,\u201d and was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison.<\/p>\nAn informed source told<\/a> the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Hossein Derakhshan <\/a>was released on December, 9th, 2010, on the unprecedented bail amount of $1.5 million. Derakhshan had requested a prison furlough after a lower court sentenced him to 19.5 years in prison in September.<\/p>\nSince 2010, Derakhshan has been granted at least two brief prison furloughs, but remains in Evin Prison.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/hossein-derakhshan","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"53.613281"}},{"item":{"name":"Jila Baniyaghoob","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Jil_Baniyaghoob.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-06-20","date_to":"2009-08-24","blog_url":"http:\/\/irwomen.net\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/defenders\/hrd_iran\/hrd_iran_page.aspx?item=57&c=i6","background":"Jila Baniyaghoob, 38, freelance reporter and editor-in-chief of the website Kanoon Zanan Irani<\/a> (Focus on Iranian Women), Iran. Baniyaghoob works in one of the most restrictive environments for both journalists and women in the world. Still, she has fearlessly reported on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women. She has been fired from several jobs because she refuses to censor the subject matter of her reporting and several of her media outlets have been closed by the government. She has travelled throughout the Middle East, writing accounts of the lives of women and refugees during times of conflict. The topics of her reporting make her a target of the Iranian government. She has been beaten, arrested and imprisoned numerous times.Jila won the 2009 Courage in Journalism Award for fearlessly reporting on government and social oppression, particularly as they affect women.<\/p>\nJila was arrasted on June 20th, 2009, and released on 24 August 2009, on bail of approximately $200,000, after spending two months in incommunicado detention. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/jila-baniyaghoob","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Karim Arghandehpour","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-06-17","date_to":"2009-06-17","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.futurama.ir","background":"Karim is a blogger who blogs at Futurama<\/a> and reporter for the pro-reformist newspapers Salam, Vaghieh and Afaghieh. Karim was arrested on 17 June, 2009, according to Tehran Bureau news Web site.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/karim-arghandehpour","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Mahbobeh Abasgholizadeh","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mahbobeh_Abasgholizadeh_.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-11-01","date_to":"2004-11-30","background":"<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mahbobeh-abasgholizadeh","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"53.964844"}},{"item":{"name":"Massoud Ghoreishi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/masoud_ghoreishi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-08-07","date_to":"2004-11-11","background":"In 2004, followingthe Majlis elections, the government attempted tocrackdown on the Iranian blogging community. Massoud Ghoreishi, a blogger who worked for Emrooz, an Iranian online journal was arrested in August 2005 and was released three months later on bail. He was believed to be helping Rooydad, new websites close to the major reformist party, Iran Participation Front (Jebhe-ye Mosharekat).<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/massoud-ghoreishi","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"53.261719"}},{"item":{"name":"Mazaher R","status":"Unknown","date_from":"2009-02-04","date_to":"2009-02-04","background":"According to<\/a> several sources an Iranian Christian blogger, Mazaher R, was arrested in the city of Isfahan in Iran about one month ago. He is a convert from Islam and he used to write about Bible in his blog. On 23 February <\/a>the Iranian police raided the house of the father of the Christian blogger Mazaher R, seizing computers, printers and Christian books, among other things. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mazaher-r","city":"Isfahan","country":"Iran","lat":"32.602362","lon":"51.613770"}},{"item":{"name":"Mehdi Khazali","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/mehdi-khazali.jpeg","status":"Released","date_from":"2010-10-13","date_to":"2010-11-12","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.drkhazali.com\/","background":"According to Payvand.com<\/a>, blogger<\/a> Mehdi Khazali, head of Iran's Medical Data Bank and son of hardliner, Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, was arrested on October 13, 2010, by Iranian authorities. He was summoned to Evin Prison and arrested for \"activities against national security and disturbing public minds.\" In the past two years, he has repeatedly criticized Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his blog and website.<\/p>\nMehdi Khazali wrote condemning blogs regarding the violent reaction of the government to the widespread protests to the alleged vote fraud in the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009. <\/p>\nSeveral news sites reported <\/a>that Mehdi<\/a> was released on November 12th, 2010, on 200000 dollars bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mehdi-khazali","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696111","lon":"51.423056"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohamad Reza Nasab Abdolahi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mohamad_Reza_Nasab_Abdolahi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2005-02-23","date_to":"2005-08-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.iranreform.persianblog.com","background":"From HRW<\/a>: On February 23, 2005, following a closed-door trial held without his lawyer, Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdullahi was sentenced to six months in prison on appeal for insulting the Supreme Leader and spreading anti-government propaganda. He was imprisoned five days later. Abdullahi, a university student, human rights activist, editor of a student newspaper, and blogger in the central Iranian city of Kerman, served six months in an Iranian prison for posting an entry on his blog, Webnegar (\u201cWeb writer<\/a>\u201d). The offending post, titled \u201cI Want to Know,\u201d was addressed to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and criticized the government\u2019s repression of \u201ccivil and personal rights and liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohamad-reza-nasab-abdolahi","city":"Kerman","country":"Iran","lat":"30.280270","lon":"57.067020"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohammad Ali Abtahi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/abtahi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-06-16","date_to":"2009-11-22","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.webneveshteha.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.freeabtahi.com\/?lang=en","background":"From Wikipedia<\/a>: Mohammad Ali Abtahi<\/a>, former reformist vice president and an adviser to Mehdi Karoubi<\/a>, a reformist candidate. Mr Abtahi used to update his blog<\/a> each day for several years and share his opinion on different topics, including Iranian issues.<\/p>\nMohammad Ali Abtahi was arrested on June 16, 2009 during the aftermath of the 2009 presidential elections and subsequent protests. He reportedly made a videotaped confession following his arrest, in which he stated that the opposition\u2019s claims of a stolen election were false, and that opposition leaders had conspired in advance to misrepresent the vote. According to the statement, former presidents, Mohammad Khatami and Rafsanjani had taken an \"oath\" not to abandon each other in their support for former prime minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi as they prepared to stage a Velvet Revolution in order to avenge their defeat in Iranian presidential election, 2005. According to human rights groups, similar confessions by Iranian political prisoners are almost always obtained under duress.<\/p>\nIn response members of his and other arrested reformists gathered at his home issued a statement denouncing his confession, saying \u201cnot only do we not accept the confession, we also know that Abtahi said these things due to a long period of imprisonment for the purpose of obtaining a confession.\u201d In a court hearing, his wife Fahimeh Mousavinejad, dismissed her husband\u2019s confession as false and \"not at all in Mr. Abtahi\u2019s style. ... As his family, we know the way he expresses himself. Many people have read his blog. The sentences he was using were not his own.\u201d<\/p>\nAbtahi's photos from the trial show signs of probable torture use during his imprisonment.<\/p>\nFollowing Abtahi's record as the first Iranian cabinet member to blog while in office, on August 26, 2009, he also became the first known Iranian prisoner to blog while still at prison.[7] A few days after that prison blog entry, however, his website was suddenly taken offline.<\/p>\nAccording to the BBC<\/a>, on November 22, 2009, Mr Abtahi has been temporarily released on bail of 7bn rials ($425,000) after 160 days in detention. Irna quoted an unnamed court official as saying: \"Abtahi was sentenced to six years in prison for acting against national security and propaganda activity.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohammad-ali-abtahi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.710838","lon":"51.416016"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohammad Pour Abdoullah","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mohammad_Pour_Abdoullah.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2009-01-12","date_to":"2009-01-12","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.feuer17.blogspot.com\/","campaign_url":"http:\/\/hr-hr.facebook.com\/group.php?gid=310668455104","background":"RSF<\/a> reports that Mohammad Pour Abdoullah, the editor of the blog Pishro<\/a> (Avant-Garde), has been arrested on 12 January 2009 for writing about a crackdown on the student movement, prison conditions and the interrogation methods used by intelligence ministry agents. <\/p>\nHe was kept in solitary confinement and subjected to constant pressure for 23 days after his arrest. As he refused to admit to the charges brought against him, he is still awaiting trial. An initial hearing was to have been held on 21 February, but the judge adjourned it indefinitely, without explanation. Thereafter, Abdoullah was moved to an individual cell and then to Ghezel Hessar, a prison for non-political detainees. <\/p>\nMohammad Pour Abdullah was sentenced on 14 December 2009 to six years in prison on charges of anti-government publicity and activities against national security.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohammad-pour-abdoullah","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Mohammad Reza Pourshajari","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-12-12","date_to":"2010-12-12","background":"Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, a blogger also known by the name Siamak Mehr, was arrested on September 12, 2010. According to reports, Pourshajari was scheduled<\/a> to be tried on December 21, 2011 on charges of insulting the Prophet and \"enmity with God,\" charges that could bring the death penalty.<\/p>\n<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mohammad-reza-pourshajari","city":"Karaj","country":"Iran","lat":"35.827110","lon":"50.980370"}},{"item":{"name":"Mojtaba Lotfi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Mojtaba-Lotfi_.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-10-08","date_to":"2008-10-08","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.petitionspot.com\/petitions\/Mojtabalotfi\/","background":"Theologian and online journalist Mojtaba Lotfi\u2019s arrest on 8 October for a posting a sermon by Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri - a well-known opponent of the Islamic revolution\u2019s Supreme Guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei - online.Formerly a journalist with the pro-reform daily Khordad, which the authorities closed in 2000, Lotfi was first arrested in May 2004 in Qom after posting an article entitled \u201cRespect for human rights in cases involving the clergy\u201d on www.naqshineh.com<\/a>, a website about Qom, which the government of Iran has blocked since March 2004 on the orders of the Qom authorities. He was sentenced in August 2004 to three years and ten months in prison for disseminating \u201clies\u201d online. He was later released on bail pending the outcome of an appeal hearing, for which a date was never set. (RSF<\/a>)<\/p>\nAccording to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Lotfi was transferred<\/a> in 2010 to internal exile in the remote village of Ashtian.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mojtaba-lotfi","city":"Qom","country":"Iran","lat":"32.324276","lon":"53.613281"}},{"item":{"name":"Mojtaba Saminejad","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/saminejad.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-11-01","date_to":"2005-01-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.madyariran.net\/","background":"As a student, Saminejad was a writer and blogger. In 2004 Reporters Without Borders listed his as one of the Best blogs defending freedom of expression. Saminejad's initial arrest on November 1, 2004, followed the publication on his blog of the arrests of three other bloggers. He was released on bail on January 27, 2005, relaunched his blog at a new address, and was promptly re-arrested on February 12, 2005. His bail was doubled to $125,000, which he could not pay.He was charged with \"insulting the prophets\" (punishable by the death penalty under Article 512 of the Iranian Islamic penal code), \"endangering national security\", and \"insulting the Supreme Leader\" (the head of state of Iran). On June 2, 2005, he was found guilty of \"insulting the Supreme Leader\", and sentenced to two years' imprisonment by Judge Saadat of Revolutionary Court 13.On June 28, 2005, he was found not guilty of \"insulting the prophets\". One month later he was sentenced to an extra ten months in prison for incitement to \u201cimmorality\u201d. During his arrest, Saminejad was allegedly held in solitary confinement for 88 days and subjected to beatings and torture. He was taken in handcuffs to sit his exams at Tehran\u2019s Azad University on 21 January 2006. After 21 months, on September 13, 2006 he was released from prison, and started blogging again. He also works with an Iranian human-rights group, Human Rights Activists in Iran, which gathers information about how Iranians are repressed. In 2009 he signed an open letter of apology posted to Iranian.com along with 266 other Iranian academics, writers, artists, journalists about the Iranian Persecution of Bah\u00e1'\u00eds. Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/mojtaba-saminejad","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Najmeh Oumidparvar","status":"Released","date_from":"2005-03-02","date_to":"2005-03-26","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.faryadebeseda.persianblog.com.","background":"On March 2, 2005, Najmeh Oumidparvar, the wife of the ten arrested blogger, Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdullahi, was arrested in her home. She had posted messages from her husband on her own blog<\/a>. On the eve of her arrest, she had given an interview to the German radio station Deutsche Welle. She was four months pregnant. After twenty-four days in custody, Oumidparvar was freed on bail.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/najmeh-oumidparvar","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Navid Mohebbi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/navid_mohebbi.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2010-09-18","date_to":"2010-09-18","blog_url":"http:\/\/navidmohebbi3.blogfa.com\/","background":"Reporters Without Borders reported<\/a> the arrest of the 18-year-old blogger Navid Mohebbi at his home in Amol on 18 September by eight intelligence ministry officials. Acording to RWB, Mohebbi is facing the possibility of a long prison sentence. A women\u2019s rights activist who keeps a blog called \u201cThe writings of Navid Mohebbi\u201d (http:\/\/navidmohebbi3.blogfa.com\/<\/a>), he had been summoned and questioned several times by various intelligence services in the past year. He was beaten at the moment of his arrest and has been held in cell with ordinary offenders ever since.\"<\/p>\nNavid Mohebbi, is currently being tried behind closed doors before a revolutionary court in the northern city of Amol. His lawyer is not being allowed to attend the trial, which began on 14 November.<\/p>\nMohebbi has been accused of \u201cactivities contrary to national security\u201d and \u201cinsulting the Islamic Republic\u2019s founder and current leader (...) by means of foreign media.\u201d He has also been accused of being member of the \u201cOne Million Signatures\u201d movement, a campaign to collect signatures to a petition for changes to laws that discriminate against women.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/navid-mohebbi","city":"Amol","country":"Iran","lat":"36.466944","lon":"52.356944"}},{"item":{"name":"Omid Memarian","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/omied_memarian.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-10-10","date_to":"2004-12-04","blog_url":"http:\/\/omidmemarian.com","background":"On 10 October, 2004, Memarian was arrested on the orders of the Tehran Prosecutor's Office's Ninth Chamber. He was detained for posting articles on several reformist newspapers, his blogs and online publications, and was charged with spreading a \"dark picture of the country and stoking women's issues.\" Five days later the authorities also searched Memarian's home and confiscated his personal notes and computer.[citation needed] He was detained until mid-December 2004. According to Human Rights Watch, Memarian and other journalists who had been detained were subjected to torture and solitary confinement, but before their release they were coerced into signing a confession letter which stated that they had been detained under good conditions.<\/p>\nShortly before his arrest in 2004, Memarian had tried to attend a conference on Iranian civil society in New York. He had obtained a US visa, but en route in Frankfurt, US authorities refused to allow him to board his flight, saying that he was on a No Fly List. They provided no other information. He was arrested a few days after his return to Tehran.<\/p>\n Source: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/omid-memarian","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"52.558594"}},{"item":{"name":"Omidreza Mirsayafi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/omidreza-mirsayafi.jpg","status":"Deceased","date_from":"2008-04-22","date_to":"2008-04-22","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.march18.org\/","background":"Mirsayafi, 28, author of the cultural news blog, Rooznegar, was arrested on April 22, 2008, released 41 days later on bail, then stood trial on November 22, and was charged under article 514 of the criminal code. He was freed, then detained on February 7 without warning. He was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging in \u201cpropaganda\u201d against the Islamic Republic of Iran. He died in prison a little over one month later, on March 18<\/a>, 2009. Mirsayafi was 29 years old. His brother, Amir-Parviz Mirsayafi, says<\/a> was beaten to death. \"Omid Reza was the first blogger to die in prison<\/a> and his death reveals that getting censored is far from the worst thing that can happen to a blogger<\/em>\".<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/omidreza-mirsayafi","country":"Iran","lat":"32.620870","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Reza Valizadeh","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/reza_valizadeh.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2007-11-27","date_to":"2007-12-05","blog_url":"http:\/\/eistgah.blogfa.com\/","background":"Reza Valizadeh, a journalist and blogger, was the object of a complaint from the Iranian president's office and was detained on November 2007. Several Iranian blogs and websites argue the main reason he was arrested was because he revealed that Ahmadinejad's security staff bought four dogs from Germany for about $150,000 each. He was released after a few weeks of detention.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/reza-valizadeh","country":"Iran","lat":"33.211116","lon":"52.558594"}},{"item":{"name":"Rojin Mohammadi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/rojin.jpg","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2011-11-14","date_to":"2011-11-14","background":"Iranian blogger Rojin Mohammadi was arrested<\/a> on November 14, 2011 upon returning to her home country of Iran from the Philippines. According to HRANA, she was released then subsequently summoned<\/a> on November 21, interrogated, and imprisoned on November 23. She is currently held at Evin Prison.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/rojin-mohammadi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696111","lon":"51.423056"}},{"item":{"name":"Roozbeh Mirebrahimi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Roozbeh_Mirebrahimi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2004-10-27","date_to":"2004-11-27","blog_url":"http:\/\/shabnameha.wordpress.com\/","background":"Roozbeh Mirebrahimi was arrested in fall 2004 because of hid work as a political editor for several reformist newspapers in Iran, as well as his critical comments about the regime on his personal blog and on other Web sites.<\/p>\nMirebrahimi spent 60 days in solitary confinement. He was interrogated and tortured for days on end. <\/p>\nAfter 60 days, Mirebrahimi was released on bail because of international pressure and help from government reformists. In February 2009, the court sentenced \u0627\u0647\u0629 to two years\u2019 imprisonment and 84 lashes. Two other charges are still under review.<\/p>\nMirebrahimi now blogs from New York City, where he is currently the International Journalist in Residence at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/roozbeh-mirebrahimi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"33.797409","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Saeed Malekpour","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-10-01","date_to":"2008-10-01","background":"Saeed Malekpour<\/a>,\n a 36-year old web and circumvention tool developer based in Canada, was\n arrested over several charges, including \u201cacting against national \nsecurity through propaganda against the Islamic Republic,\u201d \u201cinsulting \nand desecrating the principles of Islam,\u201d and \u201cproduction and \npublication of obscene materials through computer systems.\u201d United for Iran reports<\/a>\n that he had created a photo-uploading program, and that it had been \nused to upload pornographic images without his knowledge. He was \nsentenced to death last week as a \u201ccorrupter of the earth.\u201d While the \ngovernment officially acknowledges executing 17 people since the start \nof the new year, Amnesty International reports<\/a> receiving information that the true number may be closer to 39 executions. <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/saeed-malekpour","country":"Iran","lat":"32.427908","lon":"53.688046"}},{"item":{"name":"Shahnaz Gholami","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Shahnaz_Gholami.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2008-11-09","date_to":"2009-01-17","blog_url":"http:\/\/azarwomen.blogfa.com\/","background":"Shahnaz Gholami, the editor of the \"Azerzan\" blog,was arrested on November 9,2008 in her house by intelligence agents.She had been sentenced to six months of imprisonment on September 8, 2008, in branch no. 1 of Tabriz revolutionary court for propaganda against the state. Also before this she had been in jail for five years (1989-1993) in Tabriz prison (ADAPP<\/a>). Gholami spent 69 days in custody and was released from prison on 17 January on bail of 200 million toman [about 200,000 dollars).(RSF<\/a>)<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/shahnaz-gholami","city":"Tabriz","country":"Iran","lat":"32.620870","lon":"53.261719"}},{"item":{"name":"Shiva Nazarahari","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Shiva_Nazar_Ahari_0.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2009-12-20","date_to":"2010-09-12","campaign_url":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Free-Shiva-nazar-ahari\/120167939239","background":"A woman journalist, blogger and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and other human rights groups, was arrested at her workplace on 14 June, 2009 in Tehran. The security forces had searched her house the previous night in her absence and confiscated some of her personal possessions. After spending 102 days in detention, she was released on 23 September 2009 on $200,000 bail. She spent 33 days of her detention in solitary confinement.<\/p>\nShe was arrested<\/a> for the second time on 20 December 2009, and has remained in prison without furlough and without any explanation from authorities about the reasons for her imprisonment. According to <\/a>several news websites, Shiva was released<\/a> on $500,000 bail on 12 September 2010 . She went to trial in handcuffs in early September and was accused of involvement with the organization, People's Mujahedin of Iran<\/a>.<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/shiva-nazarahari","city":"Teheran","country":"Iran","lat":"35.696216","lon":"51.422945"}},{"item":{"name":"Sina Motalebi","portrait":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Sina_Motallebi.jpg","status":"Released","date_from":"2003-04-20","date_to":"2003-05-14","blog_url":"http:\/\/www.rooznegar.com\/","background":"On 20 April 2003 he was arrested by intelligence division of law enforcement because of his writings in his weblog and newspapers, and his interviews with foreign media.<\/p>\nHe was detained 23 days in solitary confinement in a secret detention centre before he was released on bail.<\/p>\nIn December 2003 Sina left the country for the Netherlands where he sought asylum. He recalled his experiences in his weblog as well as a joint press conference held by Human Rights Watch and Reporters sans fronti\u00e8res (in June 2004).<\/p>\nThe judiciary responded by arresting his father, Saeed Motalebi and charged him with \u201cassisting the escape of an accused person,\u201d an apparent reference to his son\u2019s departure from Iran, despite the fact that Sina Motalebi left Iran legally.<\/p>\nSaeed Motalebi was detained for 10 days in a secret detention centre before being released.<\/p>\nSource: Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/sina-motalebi","city":"Tehran","country":"Iran","lat":"34.089061","lon":"52.910156"}},{"item":{"name":"Vahid Asghari","status":"Under Arrest","date_from":"2008-05-11","date_to":"2008-05-11","background":"Vahid Asghari, a 24-year-old student in India, was arrested on May 11, 2008 at Tehran Airport and accused of hosting websites with \u201cpornographic\u201d content critical of the government. Amnesty International reports<\/a>\n that Asghari wrote to a judge that \u201che had been subjected to torture, \nforced to make a televised \u2018confession\u2019 and forced to make spying \nallegations against high profile blogger Hossein Derakhshan<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>","permalink":"http:\/\/threatened.globalvoicesonline.org\/blogger\/vahid-asghari","country":"Iran","lat":"32.427908","lon":"53.688046"}}]}](\"http:\/\/chrr.us\/IMG\/arton6998.jpg\"){kind=link}