Court Session Held For 11 Political Defendants In Tehran

A court session against 11 political prisoners took place on Tuesday at the Revolutionary Court of Tehran in the latest mass trial of anti-regime voices.

No evidence was provided regarding the charges brought against the group, all of whom were detained by security forces between August 1 and November 20.

Among the accused, Kazem Ali-Nezhad, Arsham Rezaei, Meysam Gholami, Vahid Ghadirzadeh, and Payam Bastani-Parizi have previously faced arrests and convictions due to their civil and political activities.

The accused individuals, namely Fatemeh Haqparast, Mohammad-Reza Kamrani-Nezhad, Vahid Sorkh Gol, Kazem Ali-Nezhad Baranlou, Arsham Rezaei, Meysam Gholami, Vahid Ghadirzadeh, Ali-Asghar Hassani-Rad, Saman Rezaei, Payam Bastani Parizi, and Hojatollah Rafei, faced allegations including "conspiracy and collusion to commit crimes against internal/external security, propaganda against the system.

Charges also included insulting Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, insulting the memory of Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, and encouraging people to commit crimes against internal/external security," according to reports from the US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).

The Islamic Republic has a history of detaining, torturing, and imprisoning government critics active in civil and political spheres since its establishment. The recent wave of suppressing civil, political activists, and protesters by the government has intensified since the nationwide protests of Iranians against the Islamic Republic began in September 2022, persisting to the present day.