Human Rights Reporters Committee – There is no update on the status of Koohyar Goodarzi, human rights activist, who was arrested on Sunday December 20.
according to his lawyer, Mina Jafari, the case for this human rights activist and journalist has not been sent to any of the branches of the Revolutionary Court and there is no update on possible charges against him.
Koohyar Goodarzi is a famous activist in attempts to abolish the capital punishment, especially execution of teenagers. He has made many attempts to get the permission of the victim’s parents to stop execution of teenagers and also to bring down the number of executions in Iran by raising awareness.
He was dismissed from Sharif University in November with the pressure of security forces. He was studying aerospace engineering in this university. This journalist and human rights activist has been active as a member of the Islamic Association of Sharif University, ex-secretary of Human Rights Reporters, programmer for Radio Zamaneh, member of Human Rights Committee for Tahkim Vahdat Alumni organization and a member of Tahkim Vahdat office-Alameh.
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