According to the Hana Human Rights Organization, in recent days four political prisoners from Abdanan — Mohammad Daniali, Vahid Chavaran, Naser Rezaei, and Mohammad-Hossein Haseli — have been sentenced in a new case by Branch 2 of the Criminal Court One of Ilam Province to a total of 13 years and 6 months of Ta’zir imprisonment.
Based on this report:
• Vahid Chawaran and Naser Rezaei were each sentenced to 5 years in prison on charges of possessing firearms.
• Mohammad Daniali was sentenced to 2 years in prison for possessing a Colt handgun.
• Mohammad-Hossein Haseli was sentenced to 1 year in prison for assault and 6 months for possessing a hunting rifle.
The court also ordered Mohammad-Hossein Haseli to pay 10 million tomans in fines and blood money to the complainant as supplementary punishment.
According to received reports, these four prisoners had previously been arrested in connection with another case during the “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement and were each sentenced by Branch 1 of the Ilam Revolutionary Court to 12 years of Ta’zir imprisonment and exile to the prisons of Kerman, Zahedan, and Mashhad on charges of “enmity against God (Moharebeh)” and “assembly and collusion against national security.”
These individuals were arrested between June and August 2023, and later, in April 2025, three of them — Naser Rezaei, Vahid Chavaran, and Mohammad-Hossein Haseli — were transferred respectively to the prisons of Kerman, Zahedan, and Mashhad.
It should be noted that Mohammad Daniali, who had previously been sentenced to 2 years in prison on charges of “assembly and collusion against national security,” was arrested on Saturday, March 15, 2025 to serve his sentence and was transferred to Ilam Central Prison.