Mohammad Seifzadeh
سید محمد سیف زاده Mohammad Seifzadeh | |
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Born | 1948 Qom, Iran |
Nationality | Iranian |
Occupation(s) | lawyer, Founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center |
Mohammad Seifzadeh (Persian: سید محمد سیف زاده - born 1948) is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge, human rights activist and a cofounder of Centre for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran. He is the older brother of Hossein Seifzadeh, an Iranian political scientist.
Life
Seifzadeh was a member of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi's legal team in 2004 when she represented the mother of Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, who had been murdered in an Iranian prison, allegedly by an Iranian security officer.[1]
In October 2010, Seifzadeh was charged with "collusion and assembly with intent to disrupt internal security," "propagation activities against the regime," and "establishing the Center for Human Rights Defenders."[2] He was sentenced to 9 years of prison and 10 years of ban from the practice of law.[3] He called the ruling the result of "an unlawful court proceeding".[4]
While appealing the ruling, Seifzahed remained at liberty. In April 2011, he visited Urumiyeh on the Turkish border and was arrested by Iranian officials on charges of attempting to leave the country illegally. Seifzahed's lawyer argued that he had only been in the city for a research project.[2]
Since then, various organizations such as the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have called for his release.[5][6] Amnesty International designated him a prisoner of conscience.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Ali Akbar Dareini (18 July 2004). "Nobel laureate protests court decision, threatens to take slain photojournalist case to international organizations". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ a b "Another lawyer jailed, this one for visiting Urumiyeh". Iran Times International. 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 9 April 2016. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ Golnaz Esfandiari (1 November 2010). "Prominent Iranian Rights Lawyer Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison". Radio Free Europe. Archived from the original on 12 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Prominent Attorney Mohammad Seifzadeh Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison". Human Rights House of Iran. 1 November 2010. Archived from the original on 14 March 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Release of a human rights lawyer, while others remain arbitrarily detained and harassed". International Federation for Human Rights. 29 April 2011. Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Regime Still Targeting Human Rights Lawyers and Journalists". Reporters Without Borders. 27 April 2011. Archived from the original on 16 June 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
- ^ "Iran must release human rights defender Mohammad Ali Dadkhah". Amnesty International. 1 October 2012. Archived from the original on 1 October 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
External links
- Mohammad Seifzadeh's Personal Weblog
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- Zahra Bahrami
- Emad Bahavar
- Esmail Bakhshi
- Mahmudali Chehregani
- Atena Daemi
- Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee
- Amir Abbas Fakhravar
- Alireza Farshi
- Parvaneh Forouhar
- Ali-Asghar Gharavi
- Kouhyar Goudarzi
- Zeynab Jalalian
- Vida Hajebi Tabrizi
- Saeed Hajjarian
- Leila Hosseinzadeh
- Soheila Hejab
- Jafar Kazemi
- Amir Khorram
- Amir Khosrow Dalirsani
- Dhabihu'llah Mahrami
- Mohammad Maleki
- Azar Mansouri
- Farideh Mashini
- Mohsen Mirdamadi
- Ahmad Moftizadeh
- Narges Mohammadi
- Abdollah Momeni
- Youcef Nadarkhani
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- Keyvan Rafiee
- Alireza Rajaei
- Arash Sadeghi
- Mahan Sadrat
- Fatemeh Sepehri
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- Reza Shahabi
- Jamshid Sharmahd
- Ghasem Sholeh-Saadi
- Abbas Lisani
- Ali Shariati
- Majid Tavakoli
- Habibollah Peyman
- Sayed Ziaoddin Nabavi
- Bahman Ahmadi Amouee
- Mahsa Amrabadi
- Ahmad Batebi
- Masoud Bastani
- Abdolali Bazargan
- Mohammad Ghouchani
- Niloofar Hamedi
- Adnan Hassanpour
- Zahra Kazemi
- Masoud Lavasani
- Saeed Laylaz
- Elaheh Mohammadi
- Sam Mahmoudi
- Said Matinpour
- Kasra Nouri
- Siamak Pourzand
- Hossein Rafiee
- Taghi Rahmani
- Roxana Saberi
- Majid Saeedi
- Faraj Sarkohi
- Kianush Sanjari
- Mohsen Sazegara
- Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand
- Hengameh Shahidi
- Mashallah Shamsolvaezin
- Heshmat Tabarzadi
- Roya Toloui
- Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
- Ruhollah Zam
- Ahmad Zeidabadi
- Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
- Saleh Kamrani
- Nasrin Sotoudeh
- Shadi Sadr
- Mohammad Seifzadeh
- Abdolfattah Soltani
- Dariush Eghbali
- Shervin Hajipour
- Mehdi Rajabian
- Toomaj Salehi
- Mehdi Yarrahi
- Mohsen Aminzadeh
- Morteza Alviri
- Shahrbanoo Amani
- Abbas Amir-Entezam
- Mohsen Armin
- Mohammad Atrianfar
- Seyyed Ebrahim Amini
- Emadeddin Baghi
- Jila Baniyaghoob
- Mehdi Bazargan
- Nasrollah Entezam
- Iraj Eskandari
- Hossein Fatemi
- Dariush Forouhar
- Sadegh Ghotbzadeh
- Mehdi Hajati
- Bahareh Hedayat
- Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani
- Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran
- Amir-Abbas Hoveyda
- Anvar Khamei
- Mohammad-Reza Khatami
- Khalil Maleki
- Mir-Hossein Mousavi
- Ali-Akbar Mousavi Khoeini
- Farajollah Mizani
- Ahmad Moftizadeh
- Behzad Nabavi
- Abdollah Nouri
- Reza Radmanesh
- Abdollah Ramezanzadeh
- Gholam Hossein Sadighi
- Abolghasem Sarhaddizadeh
- Ali Shakouri-Rad
- Ali Shariati
- Mahdi Tajik
- Mostafa Tajzadeh
- Mansour Osanlou
- Ebrahim Yazdi
- Taqi Arani
- Ramin Jahanbegloo
- Omid Kokabee
- Seyed Hossein Mousavian
- Ehsan Tabari
- Kian Tajbakhsh
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