May 21, 2011
Younes Soleimani, Mahmoud Fazli, Naeim Ahmadi, Aidin Khajei, Shahram Radmehr, Yashar Karimi, and Hamideh Farajzadeh have each been sentenced to 6 months in prison. Alireza Abdollahi, Behboud Gholizadeh and Akbar Azad have also been sentenced to 6 months of suspended imprisonment for 5 years.
According to the Human Rights House of Iran, Hassan Rahimi has been acquitted after 4 months of solitary confinement.
The aforementioned individuals were tried for membership in a party by the name of “Gamouh” and acting against national security. They spent 8 months in prison, 5 months of which was in solitary confinement. Yourosh Mehrali Biglou, Latif Hosseini and Zahra Farajzadeh, several other Azeri political activists, will be tried in the upcoming days.