Mohammad Reza Pourshajari
Cases- Location of case in SG report
- 2015-026-001
- Relevant SG report
- Year of the report
- 2015
- From Country
- Country Geolocation
Latitude: 32.427908
Longitude: 53.688046
- Country Geolocation (linked Cases)
- Iran
- From Region
- UN body that raised the case prior to the SG report
- UN Special Procedures: Thematic
- Unclear
- Dates of prior UN action
- 25 November 2014
- Type of record
- Named individual
- Gender
- Male
- Was the victim a foreign national?
- No
- Was the victim a minor?
- No
- Individual's/organization's activity
a blogger
- Type of rights defended
- Unclear in SG Report
- Was the victim a civil servant or member of the security forces or of the judiciary?
- No
- Reported trigger of reprisal
in relation to his engagement with the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran
- Engagement with UN body
- UN Special Procedures: country
- Dates of engagement
- Unclear
- Type of attempted engagement
- Unclear
- Dates of mentioned reprisals
- 30 September 2014; 14 October 2014
- Location of mentioned reprisals
- Orumieh; Karaj
- Reprisal information
Mr. Pourshajari was arrested on 30 September 2014 by security forces in Orumieh and held in solitary confinement for 14 days before being transferred to Karaj prison on 14 October while awaiting trial on several charges, including for having been in contact with the Special Rapporteur.
- Types of reprisals suffered
- Physical attack: Torture/Cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment
- Alleged/likely perpetrators
- State actors
- Was the reprisal based on new legislation?
- No
- Does the report make general comment about country’s environment for engagement with UN?
- No
- Government response dates
- 21 April 2015
- Government response content
In a letter dated 21 April 2015, the Government confirmed the charges against Mr. Pourshajari of “embarking on propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran and futile attempt to illegally leave the country”, while rejecting the other allegations as “utterly baseless” (A/HRC/29/50, case IRN 28/2014).
- Is the country cited for a "pattern of reprisal" in the context of this case?
- No
- Is a pattern of reprisals mentioned otherwise in the context of this case?
- No
- Does the report cite "self-censorship" as an issue in the context of this case?
- No
- How many times has the case been followed up in subsequent SG reports?
- 0