HRANA News Agency – On Wednesday, February 5, Mohammad Sa’adati, a dismissed professor from Birjand University, was arrested and transferred to Hamedan Prison to serve his seven-month prison sentence.
According to HRANA, the news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, a source close to Sa’adati’s family confirmed that he was taken into custody on February 6 after reporting to the Enforcement of Sentences Office in Hamedan to begin his prison term.
Sa’adati was previously sentenced in absentia by the Birjand Revolutionary Court to seven months in prison on charges of “propaganda against the regime.” In a separate ruling, Branch 2 of the Birjand Criminal Court fined him three million tomans for “spreading false information.”
One of the primary accusations against Sa’adati was his interviews with foreign media outlets.
According to information obtained by HRANA, Sa’adati had relocated to Turkey with his family before returning to Iran. Upon his arrival at Imam Khomeini International Airport on May 18, 2024, security agents confiscated his passport and electronic devices, along with those of his family members.
Shortly after, Sa’adati was arrested in Hamedan by intelligence agents and was released a day later on bail.
Earlier, on September 9, 2023, Mohammad Sa’adati, a toxicology professor, was officially dismissed from Birjand University.