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Two days earlier, on July 2, security agents searched Masoud\u0027s home and confiscated his personal belongings and the laptop of his wife Mira Ghorbanifar, who is also a journalist.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EOn June 29, Vida Rabani, a journalist, posted on her \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/twitter.com\/vida_rabbani\/status\/1542095880395923457?s=20\u0026amp;t=zyB18cqSe8onvHdEMnRuYQ\u0022\u003ETwitter\u003C\/a\u003E that a court had sentenced her to five years in prison and a five-year ban from professional activities and media appearances on charges of \u0022insulting the sacred\u0022 because of a poem she posted on social media and \u0022assembly and collusion against national security,\u0022 because she shared tweets from two other Iranian activists, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/09\/05\/irans-student-activists-denied-education\u0022\u003EZia Nabavi\u003C\/a\u003E and Mostafa Tajzadeh.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ETwo days earlier, on June 27, authorities arrested Ahmad Reza Haeri, a human rights defender and former political prisoner, at his home, Emtedad news outlet \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/t.me\/emtedadnet\/67835\u0022\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E. This arrest was based on the order of Branch 3 of the Evin prosecutor\u0027s office. According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hra-news.org\/2022\/hranews\/a-35581\/?tg_rhash=22a41dd9689763\u0022\u003EHRANA\u003C\/a\u003E), on June 1, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)\u2019s intelligence agents searched Haeri\u0027s home, took his personal belongings, and told him to report to the Evin prosecutor\u2019s office. Haeri had previously been summoned by the cybercrime prosecutor\u0027s office in November and December 2021 as part of a complaint against him by the Tehran General Directorate of Prisons.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hra-news.org\/2022\/hranews\/a-35553\/\u0022\u003EHRANA\u003C\/a\u003E also \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hra-news.org\/2022\/hranews\/a-35553\/\u0022\u003Ereported\u003C\/a\u003E that on June 26 the Evin prosecutor\u0027s office arrested Amir Salar Davoudi, a human rights lawyer, to serve a 10-year prison sentence he received in 2021. In December 2021, Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals upheld Davoudi\u2019s sentence of two years in prison for \u201cinsulting the supreme leader,\u201d two years for \u201cdisturbing public opinion,\u201d and ten years for \u201cforming a group to act against national security.\u201d Under article 134 of Iran\u2019s penal code, he has to serve the longest sentence, which is 10 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIn recent months, Iranian authorities have \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2022\/05\/20\/iran-arrests-amid-economic-protests\u0022\u003Eescalated\u003C\/a\u003E arrests of prominent members of teachers\u0027 unions and labor activists on baseless accusations in an attempt to silence support for growing popular social movements in the country.\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}]