Journalist Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdollahi arrested by the Revolutionary Guards

Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdollahi, editor-in-chief of the Anar Pars and Aban Press websites, who had gone to the city of Anar in Kerman Province to visit his family, was arrested by IRGC intelligence agents.

According to reports published on social media, on Saturday, April 11, Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdollahi, who had gone to his hometown of Shahr Anar with his four-year-old daughter to visit his family, was arrested on the street and transferred to the Kerman IRGC Intelligence Detention Center.

According to reports, after arresting Mr. Nasab Abdollahi, the officers went to his mother’s house and confiscated his brother’s laptop and phone. That same night, the security officers called Mr. Nasab Abdollahi’s wife and asked her to come to their home in Shiraz for a search, but before she arrived, they entered the house and took the computer and other items with them.

There is no information available about the reason for the arrest and the charges against Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdolahi.

Previously, Mohammad Reza Nasab Abdollahi, a journalist and blogger living in Shiraz, was sentenced in absentia by a court in Kerman Province to six months in prison and a fine of one million rials on charges of "publishing lies."

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

Source: Voice of America