Mohammad Davari, a civil activist was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison.
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Mohammad Davari, a labor activist from Dehdasht, a city in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, who had previously been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz, presided over by Judge Sadati, to 8 years and 6 months in prison, has recently been sentenced by Branch 1 of the Fars Court of Appeals to 3 years and 9 months imprisonment on charges of “propaganda against the regime” and “membership in an opposition group”. He must refer to the Law Enforcement Bureau in the Shiraz Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office this week to serve his sentence.
Branch 1 of the Court of Appeals in Fars Province has sentenced this civil activist to 1 year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the regime” and to 2 years and 9 months in prison for “membership in one of the opposition groups”, and according to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, the maximum punishment, i.e. 2 years and 9 months imprisonment, will be imposed on him.
Mohammad Davari, a labor activist residing in Yasuj, a city in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province (southwestern Iran), was arrested on Wednesday, October 2, 2019 by Fars Province Intelligence Department agents and transferred to the detention center of this security organ (No. 100) for interrogation.
The trial of Mr. Davari was held on Saturday, March 7, 2020 in the 1st Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz.
This labor activist was transferred to Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on January 11, 2020. Mohammad Davari was temporarily released from Adelabad Prison in Shiraz on Sunday, April 19, 2020 on bail, until the end of the trial.
This civil activist living in Yasuj had previously been detained by the IRGC intelligence agents on August, 9, 2018, and was released from Ward 1 of Yasuj Central Prison on Monday, August 27, 2018, on a 200 million Toman bail.
This resident of Yasuj was rearrested on Monday, September 17, 2018 by the IRGC intelligence agents of this city, after being summoned, and was released after hours of interrogation.
Mr. Davari, a 27-year-old undergraduate student in political science living in Yasuj, after being summoned to the IRGC’s Intelligence Department, had previously been arrested on March 5, 2018, due to publication of critical articles in cyberspace about the authorities’ improper handling of people’s livelihood conditions and the role of IRGC in the crash of the Tehran-Yasuj passenger flight, and was charged with “propaganda against the regime” and “acting against national security through the disturbance of public opinion” and was transferred to Yasuj Central Prison.
He was eventually released from Yasuj Central Prison on March 13, 2018, on a 50 milion Toman bail.