Behrouz Javid-Tehrani ( fa, بهروز جاوید تهرانی; born December 26, 1978)
is an Iranian student who was first arrested following the
Iran student protests of July 1999. As of 2009, he had spent most of the past eleven years in jail, and was in poor health due to torture.
He was first given an eight-year sentence in 1999, which was later commuted to four years. In 2005, he was arrested again and given a four-year prison sentence for "acts against state security", a three-year sentence for belonging to the
People's Mujahedin of Iran
The People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) or Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) ( fa, سازمان مجاهدين خلق ايران, sâzmân-e mojâhedīn-e khalq-e īrân), is an Iranian pol ...
, and a
flogging
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of seventy four lashes for "insulting the leadership and the state".
A 2006 independent medical examination concluded that he had been tortured while in prison.
In 2009,
Human Rights Watch
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expressed concern at his condition and called for his immediate release.
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Living people
Iranian torture victims
Iranian activists
Iranian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Iran
1978 births
Iranian human rights activists
Iranian dissidents