Vahid Asghari, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Vahid Asghari

Technology, student

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1986

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: human rights activist, journalist, blogger

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Vahid Asghari

  • Vahid Asghari (Persian: ???? ??????), 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 was 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 were cancelled by the Supreme Court of Iran 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 received a final verdict, after beening held in temporary detention for several years.
  • He was released in April 2016.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 dissident 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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