Manouchehr Bakhtiari was exiled to Qazvin prison.

According to HRANA News Agency, the news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, Manouchehr Bakhtiari, father of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of the nationwide protests of November 2019, was deported from Karaj Central Penitentiary to Qazvin Prison.

Ali Sharifzadeh, Mr. Bakhtiari's defense lawyer, announced the news on his personal page and wrote: "I have learned that my client Manouchehr Bakhtiari has been deported to Qazvin Central Prison since July 19 and is deprived of the right to contact and visit. Given his physical condition and gastrointestinal bleeding, he needs care and treatment."

Previously, a source informed about the situation of this citizen told HRANA: “Manuchehr Bakhtiari is on a hunger strike despite being seriously ill. After the arrest of Dadkhah’s families on July 10, she sent an audio file from prison, condemning the security forces’ raid and arrest of Dadkhah’s mothers and fathers and the Islamic Republic regime, and calling on all Iranians to join and support her, especially in nationwide rallies, to condemn this barbaric act. She was transferred to one of the solitary cells of Karaj Central Penitentiary.”

Mr. Bakhtiari had previously been denied specialized medical attention and sent on medical leave despite suffering from kidney, prostate, and hernia diseases, and despite a forensic medical certificate confirming the serious need for medical treatment. On May 29, 2021, Manouchehr Bakhtiari was arrested and beaten by security forces at his home in Tehran.

He was ultimately sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to 3 years and 6 months in prison, 2 years and 6 months in exile, and a 2-year ban on leaving the country, and was transferred from the detention center of one of the security institutions to the Central Penitentiary of Karaj. In January 2011, he went on a hunger strike in the Central Penitentiary of Karaj to protest the progress of the case and what Mr. Bakhtiari called injustice, and ended his strike after a few days.

Mr. Bakhtiari has previously been arrested for his activities. On April 18, 1402, he was arrested while attending a gathering at the tomb of General Asad Bakhtiari, an Iranian constitutionalist, in Isfahan, along with the families of some of those killed in the popular protests and a number of civil society activists, and was released some time later. He was also arrested by security agents at the airport on July 23, 2020, while returning from Kish to Tehran, and was released on bail on December 5, 2020.

Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of Pouya Bakhtiari, announced that his 27-year-old son was shot dead during the November 2019 protests in Phase 4 of Mehrshahr, Karaj. According to him, Pouya, along with his sister and mother, joined the protesters on the second day of the popular protests against the increase in gasoline prices, when he was shot in the skull and died before reaching the hospital. Pouya Bakhtiari (born September 1, 1992 – died November 15, 2019 in Mehrshahr, Karaj) is one of the dead of the nationwide protests of 2019 in Iran.

Source: HRANA