Hashem Aghajari summoned to Revolutionary Court after his home was searched

University professor Hashem Aghajari was summoned to the Revolutionary Court yesterday after a thorough search of his home.

Hashem Aghajari, born in 1958 in Abadan, is a professor at Tarbiat Modares University, historian, and political activist. In June 1990, Professor Aghajari was arrested after being invited by the Coordination Council of the Second Front Groups in Hamedan and following a speech on the topic of "Islamic Protestantism and Ali Shariati." He was charged with "insulting Islam and Muslim sanctities" and sentenced to death. After two years, this sentence was reduced to three years in prison, two years of internal exile, and a five-year ban on teaching.

Hashem Aghajari also attended a two-day virtual meeting at the Club House on Friday, May 2, entitled "Dialogue to Save Iran," which was held with a total of 42 participants. Of these 42 participants, 23 were from inside Iran and 19 from outside.

Security and judicial forces had also gone after some of the speakers at this virtual conference, including Keyvan Samimi, Alireza Beheshti Shirazi, Abdullah Momeni, Ghorban Behzadiannejad, Narges Mohammadi, and Alireza Hosseini Beheshti, as a result of which Keyvan Samimi and Alireza Beheshti Shirazi are currently in prison, and a new case has been opened for Narges Mohammadi in Evin Prison.

News published today indicates that on Sunday morning, May 7, intelligence officials went to Hashem Aghajari's home in Tehran in his absence and, after thoroughly searching his home and personal belongings, asked him to appear before the Islamic Revolutionary Court on Wednesday, May 10, to present himself.

It should be noted that when the agents were searching his home, Professor Aghajari was teaching at Tarbiat Modares University, but his laptop and electronic communication devices were confiscated by agents from the Ministry of Intelligence.