An Iranian political prisoner who already has been in prison for 11 years and had been sentenced to death in July by a Revolutionary Court on an additional charge of “enmity against God,” has received another two year jail sentence for “Insulting the Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei.
Mr. Arzhang Davoodi, 61, while reviewing his file in prison, accidently found out on Monday that a so-called appeal court has approved a two-year jail sentence that nor he had been informed of and neither had appealed it.
Amnesty International said in a statement in July that Arzhang Davoodi is a prisoner of conscience, jailed, and now sentenced to death, for his political opinions and peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression.
Mr. Davoodi, wrote a letter in July to the United Nations Secretary General demanding the UN to investigate his death sentence.
Mr. Davoodi, from city of Abadan and an engineer from University of Texas, was arrested in November 2003.
The October 2014 report of Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran expresses concern about the rising execution, torture and ill treatment of political prisoners in Iran.
“The execution of individuals for exercising their protected rights, including of freedom of expression and association, is deeply troubling. Members of ethnic minority groups, in particular those espousing ethnocultural, linguistic or minority religious rights, appear to be disproportionately charged with moharebeh and mofsed fel-arz, sometimes seemingly for exercising their rights to peaceful expression and association,” the report said.
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