Mohammad Reza Pourshajari is an Iranian blogger, also called Siamak Mehr, who was released from jail on 23 August 2014 after spending four years in prison.[1] He was arrested on September 12, 2010 at his home in Karaj and was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of "insulting the Supreme Leader" and of propaganda against the regime. In April 2012, he was sentenced to another year by the Karaj Revolutionary Court on blasphemy charges. He suffered a non-fatal heart attack in 2012, in prison[2] and also suffered from diabetes.[1][3]
Mohammad Reza Pourshajari | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Siamak Mehr |
| Occupation | Blogger |
| Criminal charge(s) | Insulting the Supreme Leader; propaganda against the regime; blasphemy |
| Criminal penalty | 3 years in prison (2010); 1 year in prison (2012); 1 year in prison and 2 years in exile (2014) |
At the end of his four year term, Pourshajari was released from jail. He was then rearrested, however, 38 days later and retried on March 11, 2014 and sentenced to a year in jail and two years in exile in Tabas.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | 2014 prison census - Iran: Mohammad Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr)". Refworld. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
- ^ "Document". www.amnesty.org. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
- ^ "SAVE Mohamad-Reza Pourshajari, writer and blogger". Campaign to Free Political Prisoners in Iran – CFPPI. 2018-02-12. Retrieved 2019-09-03.
- ^ "Blogger Still Held Behind Bars despite Completing Sentence as He Awaits Exile". Center for Human Rights in Iran. 2015-10-12. Retrieved 2019-09-03.