Imprisoned civilian Pouria Javaheri, who is accused of “enmity against God” (moharebeh), a charge that carries the death penalty in Iran, remains in a state of uncertainty in Kamyaran Prison, in Kurdistan province.
Javaheri was arrested on 29 November 2022 after being summoned to the office of the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Kamyaran.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that the civilian was transferred to Kamyaran Prison in February after about two and a half months of interrogation at the detention centre of the IRGC’s intelligence organisation.
On 13 March, Javaheri was taken to the 12-metre Street of Kamyaran and forced by security interrogators to take part in the filming of a fake protest video in the area in which he allegedly “opened fire at military-security forces”.
Several eyewitnesses in Kamyaran told the KHRN that IRGC and the police had blocked all the streets leading to 12-metre Street on 13 March, and had brought Javaheri in handcuffs and fetters.
According to the witnesses, the civilian initially refused to participate in the video but was forced to do so after the security officers threatened him with a gun.
At the same time, a team of security interrogators recorded a fake video as if filming the “killing of an IRGC member” during the anti-government protest.
Although security agencies and the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office accused Javaheri of “enmity against God”, dozens of civilians signed a letter addressed to the city’s court stating that the civilian was present at an asphalt company in the village of Tilkuh in Kamyaran at the time of the IRGC member’s murder.
In a brief phone call in December 2022 from the Shahramfar Detention Center in Sanandaj, Javaheri told his family that one of his ribs was broken under torture during interrogation.
Since his arrest, the civilian has been denied the right to have an appointed lawyer.
On 11 January, Seyyed Hossein Hosseini, the Chief Justice of Kurdistan Province, told the state media outlets that a case was filed against Javaheri in Branch One of the Kamyaran Prosecutor’s Office.
Hosseini said: “He confessed to firing at the officers and stated that he had received the gun from another person who was also arrested with a judicial order.”
In the end, he said that the arrest warrant for Javaheri was issued on the charge of “enmity against God”.
