Persian2English - Saham News reports that Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour, the wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh was arrested while protests took place in Tehran today. Mohtashamipour allegedly contacted her daughter with her mobile phone during the arrest. Mohtashamipour’s daughter said, “I could hear my mother disputing with the anti-riot police forces.”
Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour is the wife of Mostafa Tajzadeh, an adviser to Mir Hossein Mousavi, a member of the Iran Islamic Participation Front and the Islamic Revolution Mujahedin Organization, and the former Deputy Interior Minister in Mohammad Khatami’s cabinet. Tajzadeh is detained in prison. He was arrested after the 2009 presidential election in Iran.
Mohtashamipour had written many letters to the authorities of the Islamic Republic in protest to the illegal arrest and imprisonment of her husband.
According to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mostafa Tajzadeh was tried in branch 15 of the Revolutionary Courts on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security, and propagation activities against the regime,” and sentenced to six years in prison and 10 years’ ban on journalistic and partisan activities. He did not request an appeal.
Mostafa Tajzadeh speaks to the Iranian press a month before the 2009 Iranian Presidential election
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