Breathing in Confinement

Shahab Abbasi and Hadi Albukhanfarnezhad Released from Ardabil Prison

28-June-2016

Category: ethnic minorities

Breathing in Confinement – Shahab Abbasi and Hadi Albukhanfarnezhad, from Falahieh (Shadegan) were released from Ardabil central prison, by finishing their sentences.

According to the reports obtained by “Breathing in Confinement,” these two Arab activists were released from Ardabil cetreal prison on Monday, June 27.

Shahab Abbasi along with his brother Ghazi Abbasi and Abdolreza Amir khanafereh, Abdulamir Mojadami, Jasem Moghadam Panah, Hadi Albukhanfarnezhad and Sami Jedmavinezhad were all the people from Falahieh (Shadegan) who had been arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence in mid-June 2009. They were tried by the Revolutionary Court in Ahwaz, presided by Judge Ali Farhadvand, and 4 of them, including Ghazi Abbasi and Abdolreza Amir khanafereh, Abdulamir Mojadami, Jasem Moghadam Panah were sentenced to death on charges of enmity against God and corruption on earth, and three others identified as Shahab Abbasi, Hadi Albukhanfarnezhad and Sami Jedmavi were sentenced to three years imprisonment in exile in Ardabil.

Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz, excluding 3 years of detention and uncertainty condition of Shahab Abbasi, Hadi Albukhanfarnezhad and Sami Jedmavi in Karoon Prison in Ahvaz, sentenced them to 3 years imprisonment and exile in Ardebil.

The death sentences of Ghazi Abbasi, Abdolreza Amir Khanafereh, Abdulamir Mojadami and Jasem Moghadam Panah were upheld by branch 32 of the Supreme Court, presided by Judge Reza Farajullahi on February 13, 2013. The four men were executed in secrecy in an unknown location in November 2013.