Journalist Kianoosh Sanjeri ended his life in protest against the continued detention of 4 political prisoners

Journalist Kianoosh Sanjeri ended his life in protest against the continued detention of 4 political prisoners
Journalist Kianoosh Sanjeri ended his life in protest against the continued detention of 4 political prisoners

Journalist Kianoush Sanjeri ended his life on Wednesday in a protest movement. Yesterday, he wrote in X that if Fatemeh Sepehari, Nasrin Shakrami, Tomaj Salehi and Arsham Rezaei are not released from prison by Wednesday evening, he will end his life “in protest against the dictatorship of Khamenei and his partners”.

Despite the many messages he received under his post on X channel and the fact that, according to activists inside Iran, two expert doctors and a number of well-known political activists were in contact with him, Sanjari published a picture of Paul Hafez in Tehran at 7:00 p.m. .

Minutes later, at 7:20 p.m. on Wednesday, he published another text on his X channel and wrote, “The promise of loyalty. No one should be imprisoned for expressing their opinions. Protest is the right of every Iranian citizen. My life will end after this tweet, but let's not forget that we die and die for the love of life, not death. I wish that one day Iranians will wake up and overcome slavery. The pillar of Iran.”

This former political prisoner wrote in his X channel biography that he is “still alive”.

Arrest and prison

Senjari was arrested for the first time in 1379 at the age of 17 during student demonstrations on the first anniversary of the July 1378 incident and was kept in solitary confinement for several months.

Later, and before leaving Iran in 2006, he was arrested 9 more times in 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and was under interrogation in the detention centers of 59 IRGC and 209 Ministry of Intelligence.

In one of these arrests, during the Khatami government, he spent 111 days in solitary confinement number 63, ward 209 of Evin prison, which is under the supervision of the Ministry of Intelligence.

In these years, he “acted against the security of the country” and “propaganda against the system” citing “membership in the united student front”, participating in protest rallies, interviewing foreign media, “blackening the conditions of prisons in the blog” and organizing the rally. He was accused before the United Nations office in Tehran and was imprisoned for a total of two years.

Senjari left Iran in the middle of 2006, before one of the court hearings, and after staying for some time in one of the camps of Komle party in Iraqi Kurdistan, he was accepted as a political refugee in Norway and entered this country on November 9, 2006.

Kianoush Senjari stayed in Norway for less than a year and continued his political activity during this time and, among other things, together with the Norwegian office of Amnesty International, organized protest rallies against the death penalty and suppression of students in the capital of this country.

This deceased political activist immigrated to the United States in the late summer of 2007 and was one of the speakers at the demonstration that was held on October 2, 2007, at the same time as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to New York, in protest against the violation of human rights in Iran in front of the United Nations.

Return to Iran, arrest again and prison

On October 11, 2015, Sanjari returned to Iran after living in America for 8 years and working as a human rights journalist in the Farsi section of the Voice of America.

In a note published exclusively on Iranwire, he wrote about this return: “In short, I was suffering from homesickness … I decided once and for all to overcome the deadly longing for my family and homeland and the terror of returning to a land that Before escaping from it, I was sentenced to prison, solitary confinement, and torture many times.

Senjari was arrested two months after his return to Iran, in December 2015, and after nearly two months of detention and interrogation, he was released from Evin prison in the last week of February 2015, after posting a bail of 100 million tomans.

Senjari later wrote about the tortures that were given to him during the interrogation and the 5-day transfer to the Amin Abad mental hospital.

On August 1, 2016, Senjari announced on his Instagram that despite knowing the reason for his return to Iran to take care of his lonely and sick mother, the case has gone to court in such a way that Judge Mashaullah Ahmadzadeh, the head of Branch 26 of the Revolution Court, charged him with charges such as gathering and collusion. , propaganda activity against the system and membership in an illegal group has been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment and 6 years of suspended imprisonment, as well as 2 years of ban on leaving.

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