Vahid Asghari
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Vahid Asghari
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| Born |
3 April 1986 Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Known for | Political prisoner, Freedom of speech defender, Secular , Feminist |
Vahid Asghari (Persian: وحید اصغری), advocate for freedom of expression, women’s rights activist, and political prisoner, was detained by a group of Islamic Republic Guards Corps (IRGC) commandos on May 8, 2008 on his way to the Imam Khomeini International Airport, because of his human rights activities and held in solitary confinement for two years without trial. He sentenced to death twice by the chairman of the 15th Chamber of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, Judge Abolqassem Salavati, in 2011 and 2012, without participating in the court proceedings and without the freedom to choose his own lawyer. Both verdicts cancelled by the Supreme Court of Iran and annulled these verdicts in December 2014 on the basis that the death penalty verdict was invalid and libel accusation false. The chairman of 28th Chamber of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, Mohammad Mogheyseh, sentenced him to 18 years of imprisonment on December 7, 2014. He has not received any final verdict, and he now passes his seventh year in temporary detention.
He was accused of disseminating propaganda against the Iranian regime; libel; management of the Shabtaz Human Rights News Agency; the creation of a dissident website; support for secular websites; the provision of financial and technical support to anti-regime websites; the creation of a national plan against censorship by the government; the provision of communication and technical assistance to the Persian BBC; the administration of more than 200 opposition websites; the establishment of an international campaign to promote gender equality; and online training for the Color Revolution of Iran. He calls the whole human rights activities off the punishment and he requested his unconditional release.
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