Majid Tavakoli Returns to the Revolutionary Court
RAHANA – Majid Tavakoli was taken back to the Revolutionary Court in Tehran dressed in prison uniform and with lacerations above his right eyebrow (lacerations are tear-like wounds caused by blunt trauma). He was not given any reason for needing to appear before the court. Majid Tavakoli has been detained in solitary confinement for the past three weeks.
According to Bamdad Khabar, prior to today’s closed-door court hearing, Majid Tavakoli was tried and sentenced to eight and a half years in prison and a five-year ban from political activities and foreign travel.
Tavakoli was arrested on December 7, 2009 as he was leaving Amir Kabir University after giving a speech to the students who had gathered for the Student Day protests.
Majid Tavakoli has been arrested twice before. He was first arrested in 2007, and he spent 15 months in prison under physical and mental torture. He was later acquitted from the charges related to publishing a student newsletter. He was arrested the second time in March 2009 during a memorial ceremony held for Mehdi Bazargan, the first Iranian Prime Minister after the 1979 revolution. He was released after spending 115 days in solitary confinement in ward 209 of Evin prsion and posting a pricey bail.
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