The former vice-minister of the interior under the chairmanship of Mohammad Khatami is notably accused of “conspiracy against security”. His candidacy had been rejected for the presidential election of 2021.
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Figure of the reform camp, Mostafa Tajzadeh was sentenced Tuesday, October 11, to five years’ imprisonment for activities against the regime. Arrested on July 8 at his home in Tehran, Mr. Tajzadeh “was sentenced to five years in prison for security, two years for publication of lies and one year for propaganda against the system,” said his lawyer , M e houshang pourbabai, on his Twitter account.
The defender said that, out of this total of eight years in prison, five years are enforceable under the law on sentences of sentences. His client having not appealed, the court decision “is final and in force,” added M e
é> pourbabai. Opposite August 13 before a revolutionary court, Mostafa Tajzadeh refused to defend himself during the hearing, after the rejection of his request to speak with his lawyer, according to his defense.
Faithful criticism of the power in place, this former vice-minister of the interior under the chairmanship of the reformer Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), had tried to present himself as a “reformist citizen” in the presidential election of 2021 . His candidacy had then been rejected.
arbitrary methods
In the world, to whom he had granted an interview in June 2021, he then qualified the victory of the ultraconist Ebrahim Raïssi as “electoral coup” and called for “structural changes” and democratic in the Republic Islamic. He notably demanded the disarmament and the withdrawal of the Iranian political life of the Guardians of the Revolutionary, the Praetorian Guard of the regime. “Their illegitimate powers must be neutralized,” he said. Since then, he has continued to denounce the “discrimination”, the “Internet blocking”, “the interference of the military in politics, the economy and the elections”, as well as an “expensive foreign policy, the ‘antiamericalism and [diplomacy] prorusse “.
m. Tajzadeh had already been arrested in 2009 after the re -election to the presidency of Iran of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, challenged by an opposition gathered around unhappy reform candidates, Mehdi Karoubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi. After his release in 2016, he regularly called to release MM. Karoubi and Moussavi, under house arrest for almost twelve years.
The wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, Fakhossadat Mohtachamipour, also a reforming activist, regrets that her husband is “always kept in isolation” despite health problems. In an open letter addressed from his prison to the supreme guide, Ali Khamenei, made public, on October 10, the opponent, detained in district 2-a of Evin prison, denounced his conditions of detention, the arbitrary methods Intelligence agents for the guards of the revolution in prisons and their lack of respect for the “legal rights of prisoners”.
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