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Heshmat Alavi

Dec 27 • 18 tweets • 17 min read

Rojine Yousefzadeh, 26, from Mahabad, NW #Iran, arrested in Tehran as #IranRevolution began, has been sentenced to five years behind bars. She has been deprived of a lawyer of her choice. Her family cannot afford the $24,000 bail.

Please #BeHerVoice.

@UNHumanRights

@UNHumanRights @volker_turk @AmnestyMENA @StateDept @NikkiHaley @SaraCarterDC @skb_sara @emilykschrader @AmandaMilius @ChanelRion Danial Ghezeljaie, 21, from Gonbad-e Kavus, NE #Iran, was abducted on November 16 by security forces.

He has been tortured and sentenced to death on charges of "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God" for posting a poem in support of Iranian women's protests.

Please #BeHisVoice.

Dr. Ebrahim Rigi, a physician in Zahedan, southeast #Iran, has been sentenced to death on charges of "corruption on Earth".
He was treating injured locals gunned down by security forces on Sep 30. He was arrested on Oct 13 while driving home from work.

Please #BeHisVoice.

Pejhman Eslami, 28, has been charged with "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God" by a court in Tabriz in NW #Iran.

Arrested on Sep 21, he has never had access to a lawyer & 7 of his coworkers have been forced to "confess" that Eslami is a "protest leader.

Please #BeHisVoice.

Milad Ghasemi-Khan has been sentenced by #Iran's judiciary to death on charges of "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God" for his Instagram posts in support of the ongoing #IranRevolution.

Please #BeHisVoice as his life is in grave danger.

Fatemeh and Golnaz Beigpour, sisters from Dehloran, western #Iran, arrested on Sep 21, have been sentenced to five years in prison after being subjected to torture while in prison. Three brothers and Fatemeh’s husband were also arrested on Nov 22.

Please be their voice.

Death sentence of Masoud Biranvand, 44, on charges of "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God" was confirmed by #Iran's judiciary on Dec 24.
Attacked/arrested by plainclothes agents on Oct 28 while w/ his wife & newborn in Borujerd, W Iran. Tortured while in prison.
#BeHisVoice

Mohsen Sadeghi, 34, from a small town near Gilanegharb, W #Iran, was abducted by IRGC intelligence agents on Dec 25.

There is no information about his conditions and/or whereabouts.

Please #BeHisVoice as his life is in grave danger.

Kamal Hashemi, from Piranshahr, northwest #Iran, was sentenced to 16 months behind bars on charges of "propaganda against the state and conspiracy against national security". His trial was held in absentia.

Please #BeHisVoice as his life is in grave danger.

Javad Daneshmand-rokhi, arrested recently during the ongoing #IranRevolution, is being held in Mashhad's Vakilabad Prison in NE #Iran on charges of "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God" which can carry the death penalty.

Please #BeHisVoice as his life is in grave danger.

Hamid Sharifi, a student of Mashhad's Ferdowsi University in northeast #Iran, remains behind bars.

Family and friends are concerned about his conditions.

Please #BeHisVoice as his life is feared to be in grave danger.

Negar Davoudi, 19, from Ilam, western #Iran, has been condemned to five years in prison for her participation in the recent #IranRevolution.

Please #BeHerVoice as her life is feared to be in grave danger.

Mahsa Ghorbani, from Sanandaj, western #Iran, was abducted by regime security forces in Tehran.

There is no information about her conditions and/or whereabouts.

Please #BeHerVoice as her life is in grave danger.

Ramin Pouramin, an animal rights advocate in #Iran, was abducted by regime security forces in November in Tehran's Ekbatan district & is now under physical & psychological torture.

Sentenced to "Moharebeh" or "waging war on God", his life is in grave danger.

Please #BeHisVoice

Mona Abdi, 23, Farsi/Chinese translator, was abducted by #Iran's security forces from her home on Dec 15. She had one phone call with her family, lasting mere seconds, informing them she is in Ward 209 of Tehran's Evin Prison.
There is no info about her conditions or charges.

Narges Behiary, arrested on Nov 9, was wounded with a knife by #Iran's security forces as she sought to prevent another young woman from being arrested.

There is no information about her conditions and/or whereabouts.

Please #BeHerVoice as her life is in grave danger.

Sahar Fathi, from Kermanshah, western #Iran, was abducted on December 25 by regime security forces.

There is no information about her conditions and/or whereabouts.

Please #BeHerVoice as her life is in grave danger.

Abdurahman Mohammadi Arshad, an environment activist from Piranshahr, northwest #Iran, was arrested over three months ago.

There is no information about his conditions and/or whereabouts.

Please #BeHisVoice as his life is in grave danger.

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Please #BeHisVoice as his life is in grave danger.

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1)
Keyvan Beykpour, co-founder of Periscope, former general manager of Consumer / head of product at Twitter, is from #Iran and favorable views about the regime ruling the country.

The same regime that is killing innocent people in the streets during the #IranRevolution.

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@mtaibbi @bariweiss @ShellenbergerMD @lhfang @SaraCarterDC @skb_sara @JessieJaneDuff @dpatrikarakos @joekent16jan19 @ElectionWiz 2)
#Iran apologist/lobbyist Negar Mortazavi reached out to Beykpour, hinting at a very peculiar relationship between such a senior Iranian official at Twitter and a figure like Mortazavi.

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heshmatalavi.substack.com/p/who-is-negar…

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Niloufar Mirzaii Bafti, from Kerman, south-central #Iran, was arrested 58 days ago for her role in the #IranRevolution.
Forced to confess in Evin Prison to being a "protest leader", she could be sentenced to death on charges of "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God".
#BeHerVoice

Farhad Hemmati, 28, left his home three months ago to participating in the #IranRevolution. He never returned.

His mother says she has searched everywhere for him, to no avail.

There is no information about his conditions and/or whereabouts.

Please #BeHisVoice.

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Yousef Zarif, a student of Tehran's Allameh Tabataba'i University, remains behind bars for participating in the ongoing #IranRevolution.

There is no information about his conditions.

Please #BeHisVoice.

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Dec 27—Tabriz, NW #Iran
Locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Aylar Haghi's murder by security forces began chanting:
"Khamenei is a murderer! His rule is illegitimate!"
#IranRevolution
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Locals gathered to mark the 40th day of Aylar Haghi's murder by security forces were chanting:
"We're all together and we'll fight to the end!"
#IranRevolution
#آیلار_حقی

Dec 27—Tabriz, NW #Iran
Authorities dispatched a large number of security units to the cemetery where people were gathered to mark the 40th day of Aylar Haghi's murder by regime security forces.
#IranRevolution
#آیلار_حقی

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#Iran - Human rights organizations are reporting 81 executions of Baluchi inmates in the past 120 days in various prisons across the country.
#IranRevolution2022

@UNHumanRights

@UNHumanRights @volker_turk @amnestyusa @StateDept @EU_Commission @Europarl_EN @SaraCarterDC @skb_sara @KJTorrance @KellyRiddell #Iran—Baluch inmates sentenced to death on charges of "Moharebeh" or "waging war against God"

—Mohammad & Ali Rakhshahni-Azad, 15 & 16
—Mansour & Nezam Hout
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—Ibrahim Rigi
—Abdolmalek Dousti
—Mansour Dehmardeh

#IranRevolution

#Iran - Two lawyers, Fereshteh Tabanian & Negin Kiani, in East Azerbaijan & Khuzestan provinces, have been sentenced to time in jail today on charges of "propaganda against the state".

They're also banned from leaving the country and have seen their phones confiscated.

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Dec 22

THREAD

1)
During the past few weeks, the city of Izeh in southwest #Iran has witnessed many developments.

The regime has been going the distance to keep a lid on intense armed clashes between locals and its security forces, resulting in many setbacks for the regime.

@UNHumanRights

@UNHumanRights @volker_turk @StateDept @AdamShawNY @Kredo0 @APDiploWriter @KJTorrance @KellyRiddell @gregkellyusa @Logan_Ratick 2)
Some stats:
—Nearly 150 killed/injured among #Iran’s security forces in clashes lasting at least 5 hours

—At least three locals killed in clashes/under torture, more than 700-800 arrested

—Hossein Saeedi and Mahmoud Ahmadi among the locals killed

3)
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Security units launched attacks using heavy weapons (RPG, mortar rounds, grenades….) targeting villages near Izeh.

Saeedi & Ahmadi were killed. Several others arrested.

Mr. Mojahed Kurkur may also have been killed.