Reza Mehregan, another signatory to the petition calling for Khamenei's resignation, was arrested.
Reza Mehregan, one of the signatories of a letter calling for the resignation of Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, has been arrested in a village in Ramsar province.
According to published reports, on Wednesday, September 26, officers from the Ramsar City Intelligence Department arrested this civil activist after visiting his residence in one of the villages in Ramsar City. After searching his home and confiscating his personal belongings, including his mobile phone, they arrested him.
According to published information, Mr. Mehregan's arrest was accompanied by beatings by security officers, and there is no information about his whereabouts at this time.
On June 12 of this year, fourteen Iranian political and civil activists wrote a letter calling for the resignation of the Leader of the Islamic Republic and a change to the Iranian constitution.
A few weeks after signing this letter, Reza Mehregan, one of its signatories, posted a picture on his Twitter page, announcing that he had been attacked and beaten with a taser by unknown individuals.
The signatories of this letter were Zaratosht Ahmadi-Ragheb, Mohammad Reza Bayat, Kamal Jafari Yazdi, Hashem Khastar, Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, Gohar Eshghi (mother of Sattar Beheshti), Hourieh Farajzadeh (sister of Shahram Farajzadeh, one of those killed in the 2009 protests), Mohammad Karimbeigi, Javad Lal-Mohammadi, Mohammad Maleki, Mohammad Mahdavifar, Reza Mehregan, Mohammad Nourizad, and Abbas Vahedian Shahroudi.
In mid-August of this year, 14 female civil activists, considering the inequalities and problems of women in Iran, published a letter calling for the Islamic Republic to be abolished and a new constitution to be drafted.
These civil activists, while calling the Islamic Republic's system "anti-women," announced that they were rising up against this system in protest of what they called "sexual apartheid resulting from the patriarchal view of the jurisprudential system," and demanding a complete transition from the Islamic Republic system and the drafting of a new constitution.
Shahla Entesari, Nosrat Beheshti, Fereshteh Rezati, Parva (Sekineh) Pachideh, Giti Pourfazel, Ezzat Javadi-Hesar, Zahra Jamali, Shahla Jahanbin, Fatemeh Sepehri, Maryam Soleimani, Susan Taherkhani, Farangis Mazloum, Narges Mansouri, and Kimia Norouzi-Saber were the signatories of this letter.
Earlier, the Islamic Republic's security officials had accused the signatories of these letters of trying to "plan a new sedition." Many of the signatories of these two letters have been arrested in recent days.
International human rights organizations and the United States government have accused the Islamic Republic of violating freedom of expression and suppressing civil activists, and have called for the release of journalists who have been imprisoned simply for carrying out their duties and careers.
The US State Department also says that the Iranian regime has arrested thousands of protesters, civil activists, and representatives of workers and other trade unions in the last two years.
Source: Voice of America
