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According, to \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcpersian\/status\/1515393694786273280?s=20\u0026amp;t=PlBbtMWZ60v_-vIjWTOwzA\u0022\u003EBabak Paknia\u003C\/a\u003E, who represents Mehdi Mahmoudian, detained since August 2021, the judge dropped the previous charges but added a new charge of \u0022conspiracy assembly and collusion against national security\u0022 that can carry up to five years of imprisonment.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn August 14, 2021, Iranian authorities arbitrarily \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/iran-government-mismanagement-compounds-covid-19-crisis\u0022\u003Earrested seven human rights defenders\u003C\/a\u003E as they prepared to file a complaint against the country\u2019s National Task Force against Coronavirus, including the minister of health and other officials responsible for what they alleged to be \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/08\/19\/iran-government-mismanagement-compounds-covid-19-crisis\u0022\u003Emismanagement\u003C\/a\u003E of the Covid-19 crisis. Two lawyers, Leila Heydari and Mohammad Hadi Erfanian, were released without charge after a few hours. From the five facing charges, Keykhosravi, Nili, Faghihi and Afrafaraz have been released, on bail while Mahmoudian remains in prison.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EUnder Iran\u2019s criminal procedure \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.davoudabadi.ir\/page\/4932710\/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87-352-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D8%A2%DB%8C%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%B3%DB%8C-%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C\u0022\u003Elaw\u003C\/a\u003E, court hearings should be public unless if they are for \u201cforgivable crimes,\u201d such as certain categories of robbery, harassment, and intentional harm to property, or those that \u0022disturb public safety or religious or ethnic sentiments.\u201d The health rights defenders had \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/2022ziziimeeel\/status\/1514988113659113475?s=20\u0026amp;t=PlBbtMWZ60v_-vIjWTOwzA\u0022\u003Erequested\u003C\/a\u003E that authorities allow journalists and activists to attend, but authorities held the trial in private with no outside observers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIran has been hit hard by Covid-19 with more than 140,000 \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/\u0022\u003Edeaths\u003C\/a\u003E. Yet the government response has been so far mired in lack of transparency and politicization. These private trials just go to show the Iranian government is more concerned with silencing critics than it is with an effective response to Covid-19.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETo read this blog post in Farsi, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/fa\/blog-feed\/iranian-society-under-crackdown#blog-381785\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u00a0\u003C\/p\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/div\u003E\n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n \n\u003C\/div\u003E\n","settings":null}]