ََAraz News: Mr. Latif Hasani national and political  activist of South Azerbaijan was sent 3 day permission from Rajaiishar prison of Karaj  On Oct 23, 2015. This activist was arrested during teaching by Iran Security force refers as Ettelaat on  Feb 6, 2013.

Latif Hasani after Several months in detention at Tabriz Intelligence Office was Charged with propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran and forming Illegal groups .He was sentenced to 9 years in prison along with Mahmoud Fazli, Shahram Radmehr, Ayat Mehrali Baigloo and Behbood Gholizadeh.

Additional information about these South Azerbaijani political prisoners

They were sentenced by Branch Three of the Revolutionary Court in Tabriz on 29 April 2013 to eight years imprisonment for “forming an illegal group [Yeni Gamoh] with the intent to harm national security” and one-year imprisonment for “spreading propaganda against the system”, bringing their total sentences to nine years each.

Ayat Mehr-Ali Beyglou was also previously on hunger strike from 15 April to 21 May 2014 in protest at the treatment of political prisoners, including the refusal to grant prison leave and the harassment of political prisoners’ families. Ayat Mehr-Ali Beyglou ended his hunger strike after the prison authorities agreed to transfer him from Tabriz Central Prison to a prison closer to his home in Sofian, north of Tabriz, northwest Iran. Shahram Radmehr is suffering from stomach pains, kidney stones and knee pain, which has made it difficult for him to sit or walk.

All five men went on hunger strike on 12 July 2013 in protest at their nine-year prison sentences, which the Appeal Court had confirmed the previous month, on 13 June 2013. The prison authorities transferred all five to Raja’i Shahr Prison on 25 July 2013, possibly in retribution for their hunger strikes. Shortly after, the prison authorities transferred Shahram Radmehr and Mahmoud Fazli to Raja’I Shahr Prison’s clinic on 28 July 2013 after their health deteriorated as a result of their hunger strike. Latif Hasani, Ayat Mehr-Ali Beyglou and Shahram Radmehr were transferred back to Tabriz Central Prison after three months in or around October 2013.

Latif Hasani, Shahram Radmehr and Ayat Mehr-Ali Beyglou were previously arrested in May 2010 and taken to the Tabriz Central Prison. Latif Hasani and Shahram Radmehr spent seven months in solitary confinement where they say they were tortured or otherwise ill-treated. Shahram Radmehr, during one of what is understood to have been many interrogations by the Ministry of Intelligence, lost consciousness and spent at least three days in a hospital outside of the prison administered by the Revolutionary Guards.

Iranian Azerbaijanis, the largest minority group in Iran, speak a Turkic language and are mainly Shi’a Muslims. They live mainly in the north and north-west of the country and in Tehran. Although generally well-integrated into Iranian society, in recent years members of their community have increasingly called for greater cultural and linguistic rights, including the right to education in Azerbaijani Turkic, which is not recognized as an official language in Iran. Those who seek to promote Azerbaijani cultural identity and linguistic rights are viewed with suspicion by the Iranian authorities.

Mr.Latif Hasani was born in Khalkhal ( a small town in Ardabil City) and graduated his PHD from Baku university in political science in field of  international law.