Teachers Behind Bars in Iran

 Teachers Behind Bars
The following list is not complete, for many teachers are fearful to share information that may result in a backlash by the security apparatus in Iran.

 provided by : Campaign for support of Imprisoned Teachers. 

Present status	Issued conviction	Detention period	Time and place of arrest	Name	Number
In prison expecting his conviction and recently dismissed definitely by Disciplinary Violation Board	execution		04/01/2010	Abdolreza Ghanbari	1
In prison expecting appealing	execution		16/02/2011	Hashem Shabani-nejad	2
In prison expecting appeaing	execution		27/02/2011	Hadi Rashedi	3
Spending his Conviction in Prison	5 years of imprisonment And 4000 dollars penalty for demonstrations in 2006		08/09/2009	Mohammad Davari	4
Spending his conviction in prison	6 years of imprisonment and 5 years deprivation of social activities and definite dismissal by the Disciplinary Violations Board		01/09/2009	Rassool Bodaghi	5
Spending his conviction in prison	4 years and 11 months of imprisonment		21/06/2009	Abdolah Momeni	6
in  prison, his conviction remised 5 years on Feast of Ramathan	9 and half years of definite imprisonment	About a month ago	29/06/2010	Mahmood Bagheri	7
Spending his conviction	10 years of imprisonment and exile in Zahedan			Mohamadali Agooshi Retired teacher	8
Open file case		Less than a week	13/06/2012 Mahabad	Shahoo Hosseini	9
Open file case		Arrest while teaching	05/04/2012 Oshnaviyeh	Abdolvahed Maroofzadeh	10
Open file case			22/12/2012 Bookan	Molood Khanchehzard	11
Open file case		Less than a week	02/07/2012 Sarab	Ali Besharati	12
Open file case			January 2012 Marivan	Mozafar Sharifi	13
Open file case			January 2012 Marivan	Razgar Sharifi	14
Open file case		63 days	28/04/2012	Aliakbar Baghani	15
Open file case		About 1 month	28/04/2010	Mahmood Beheshti Langroodi	16
After 6 months was conditionally released, 5 years of exile in Lorestan	1 year of imprisonment			Nabiolah Bastan	17
Open file case				Mokhtar Assadi	18
Released after spending his conviction but now facing other  charges	2 years of imprisonment		15/06/2009	Hashem Khastar	19
Open file case			20/02/2012 Shahriyar	Amir Yaghinloo	20
Open file case		about 2 months	Mars 2011 Saghez	Mohamad- jamal Hiki	21
Open file case	10 years of suspended  imprisonment in  the initial court	44 days	28/04/2010	Esmaeel Abdi	22
Open file case			05/05/2011	Alireza Hashemi	23
Finished his Conviction on 23/05/2012	1 year of definite imprisonment		01/06/2011	Ali Poorsoleiman	24
Open file case		12 days	16/07/2009 Zanjan	Ahmad Medadi	25
Open file case		About 20 days	June 2009	Bagher Fathali Beigi	26
Open file case			December 2010	Zahra Hatami	27
Open file case	6 months of suspended imprisonment		May 2010	Ali Najafi	28
Open file case	6 months of suspended imprisonment	Less than a week	May 2010	Asghar Mohamadkhani	29
Open file case	1 year of suspended imprisonment	Less than a week	May 2010	Sayeed Jahanara	30
Open file case		More than 80 days	13/02/2011	Eliass Talebi	31
Open file case	6 years of imprisonment and 5 years of exile in Tabass		08/02/2010	Mohsen Jeldyani	32
Open file case		About 6 months	10/06/2009	Jafar Ebrahimi Aznadaryani	33
Open file case	2 years of suspended imprisonment and 91 days definite		29/04/2010	Tofigh Mortezapoor	34
Open file case			Avril 2010	Mohamad Farajian	35
Open file case		Less than a week	23/05/2012	Mohamad ali Shirazi	36
Open file case		Less than a week	04/06/2011	Massomeh Dehghan (retired teacher)	37
Open file case	18 months of definite imprisonment			Hossein Toroghi Jafari	38
Open file case		3 weeks	06/10/2009	Mohamadreza Rezayee Gorgani	39

Teachers Summoned by the Police, Security and Judicial Apparatus

In addition to the aforementioned arrests and incarcerations of teachers, many have been summoned by the police, security and judicial apparatus and subjected to interrogations, threats and judicial convictions. The following are examples of such cases:

Siyavash Eslami, a member of the Sari Teacher’s Union was arrested as a result of his participation in demonstrations following the presidential elections in 2009. Eslami was sentenced to one year prison and 76 lashes on charges of collusion against national security. His sentence was later reduced to 37 lashes by the appeals court and implemented on the 30th day of Shaban.

Mohamad-ali Hassan Shirazi, Mansoor Mirzayee, Mohamad Javad Hessami, Ahmad Changizi, Mohamad-ali Shahedi, Ramazan-ali Nejati, Mohamad-mahdi Sedighi, Mohamad-hossein Dehghanpoor and Ali Ghoochani, members of the Teachers Union of the city of Yazd were all sentenced to prison by the 1st Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court In Yazd, on a variety of charges including propaganda against the regime, illegal activities such as lectures, attending illicit meetings, gathering and issuing statements, provoking other teachers into launching a hunger strike and the closure of classes. They were sentenced to 7 years suspended imprisonment.

Bahedin Maleki, Ramin Zandnia, Ali Ghorishi, Mokhtar Assadi, Peiman Nodinian, heidar Zaman, Reza Hatami, Kamal Fakoorian, Mostafa Sarbazan, Mohamad- sedigh Sadeghi, Hiva Ahmadi, Ezatolah Nosrati, and Parviz Nassehi were all summoned, interrogated and threatened by the security officials in the province of Kurdistan on May 2nd, 2012. The aforementioned individuals were summoned to the 5th branch of the Inquiry Office for their final defense.

On May 23rd, 2010, Mohammad Mahdi Sedighi, a member of the teachers union in the city of Yazd, was summoned to the Security and Intelligence office of the IRGC, and subjected to interrogation until 11pm in the evening.

Mohamad Tavakoli, a member of the teachers union in the city of Kermanshah was summoned and threatened to detention on August 11th, 2012.

On June 13th 2012, Abass Nazari, a school teacher in the city of Ahar was also summoned to the Third Branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in the City of Tabriz.