Retrial for Amirsalar Davoodi
15-July-2021
Category: Prisoners
15-July-2021
Newsgroup: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: Amirsalar Davoodi’s trial was held on Tuesday, July 13, in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The lawyer, Amirsalar Davoodi had been sentenced to 30 years in prison as well as 111 lashes, in June 2019, by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, and his sentence was later upheld by the Court of Appeal. In June this year, however, his request for a retrial was accepted, and his case was referred to a court of equal jurisdiction.
According to “Breathing in Confinement”, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, a court hearing was held on the charges against the lawyer, Amirsalar Davoodi. The trial was held in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over by Mohammad Reza Amouzadeh. The session had been scheduled to be held on June 20. However, as the court had not received the file from the Supreme Court, the session was postponed.
On June 13, after spending about 2 years and 7 months in prison, Amirsalar Davoodi was released on bail of 2 billion Tomans from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj.
Amirsalar Davoodi had been arrested by security forces on November 20, 2018 and transferred to Evin Prison after being notified of his charges. Prior to his arrest, the agents searched his office and home and confiscated a number of his files and personal belongings.
On June 1, 2019, the imprisoned lawyer Amirsalar Davoodi was sentenced to 30 years in prison as well as 111 lashes, in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, of which the maximum sentence of 15 years in prison would be enforceable. The sentence was upheld in August of the same year.
Amirsalar Davoodi, along with a number of political prisoners in Evin Prison, went on a hunger strike on March 17, 2021, in protest of the frequent displacement of political prisoners, especially Ismail Abdi, an imprisoned Teachers’ Union Activist. He finally broke his strike on March 23, 2021, in response to the request of Ismail Abdi and members of the Council of the Bar Associations and Legal Communities.
Mr. Davoodi has so far represented many political prisoners, including Soheil Arabi and Saeed Shirzad.