Mohammad Reza Nesab-Abdollahi, Journalist, Arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

Mohammad Reza Nesab-Abdollahi, editor-in-chief of Anar Pars and Aban Press websites, was arrested by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence officers while visiting his family in Anar city in Kerman province.

According to reports published on social media, on Saturday, April 10, Mohammad Reza Nesab-Abdollahi, who had traveled to his hometown of Anar with his four-year-old daughter to visit his family, was arrested on the street and transferred to the Kerman Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence detention center.

Based on available reports, officers went to his mother’s house after his arrest and confiscated his brother’s laptop and cell phone. That same night, security officials contacted Mr. Nesab-Abdollahi’s wife and demanded that she be present for a search at their home in Shiraz, but before she arrived, they entered the house and took away computers and other items.

There is no information available regarding the reason for his arrest and the charges against Mohammad Reza Nesab-Abdollahi.

Previously, Mohammad Reza Nesab-Abdollahi, a journalist and blogger residing in Shiraz, was sentenced in absentia by a court in Kerman province to six months imprisonment and a fine of one million rials on charges of “spreading false information.”

He was released from Rafsanjan Prison in September 2005 after completing his sentence.

Source: Voice of America