A Report about Mohmmad Seddigh Kaboodvand’s Latest Status
HRANA News Agency – Mohammad
Seddigh Kaboodvand, journalist and human rights activist, despite enduring
seven and a half years imprisonment, has to spend 3 more years in prison. Mr.
Kaboodvand is being held in prison, just because of his human rights activities.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News
Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand, founder of Kurdistan’s
Human Rights Organization, was arrested on 1st July 2007 and after the trial, he was sentenced to 10 and a half years imprisonment.
He has passed 7and a half years of his sentence. Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand
has been affected by kidney infection, severe decrease in blood glucose levels
and extreme physical weakness in prison, but according to what his relatives
say, he is now in better physical condition.
One of his relatives told HRANA’s reporter, “Recently,
Mr Kaboodvand’s family has two times requested leave permission for him but the
prison authorities have refused their request, however we hope the authority
give him leave permission for Norooz (Iranian New Year’s day).”
This source also added, “There is 2 years and 10
months left of this Human Rights activist’s sentence.”
Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand was tried in the
Revolutionary Court in Tehran with charges of acting against national security
through founding and managing Kurdistan’s Human Rights organization, and was
sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and for propaganda against the Islamic
regime through connection and communication with international Human Rights organizations
and relationship and direct correspondence with Kofi Annan, UN Secretary
General and communications with the media to one year in prison, therefor he
has been sentenced to a total of eleven years imprisonment. However, the 10
years sentence because of founding human rights organization was confirmed by
branch 56 of appeal Court of Tehran County.
He was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment and 5 years
ban from journalism, publication and media management and annulment of “Payam e
Mardom” publication, by the Revolutionary Court and Public Court in Sanandaj,
regarding his journalism activities; inciting the public through publicizing
articles in “Payam e Mardom”. However, this sentence after being upheld by
appeal Court of Tehran County was reduced to 6 month imprisonment by Supreme
Court.
There is another case related to publishing a booklet
about women and violation of their rights in Iran, which has been opened in
Revolutionary Court in Western Azerbaijan that is still in interrogation and
investigation process.
So, Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand has been sentenced to
10 and a half years imprisonment and he has another case in process.
It should be mentioned that, Mohammad Seddigh
Kaboodvand was Awarded Hellman / Hammett persecuted writers’ prize in 2009 by
Human Rights Watch and also, won the press award in Great Britain under the
title of “International Journalist of the Year” in 2009.
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