Nasser Fahimi ( fa, ناصر فهیمی) is an Iranian
physician,
human rights defender and a political
prisoner of conscience. He is also the first figure in the political history of
Iran who formally requested the Islamic Republic to revoke his Iranian citizenship due to its type of government (a dictatorship).
Early life
Nasser Fahimi was born on May 8, 1974 in Sanandaj,
Kurdistan province of Iran.
Activity
In an
open letter addressed to the
High Commissioner for Human Rights,
Verónica Michelle Bachelet, and the
President of the United States,
Joe Biden, he called for the intensification of human rights condemnations against the
Islamic Republic
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.
Arrest and imprisonment
He was first arrested in 1998 during the protests aimed at condemning the supporting actions of the
Turkish government for
Abdullah Ocalan
Abdullah may refer to:
* Abdullah (name)
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. Also, in 2010, after 21 days of being arrested in an unknown place, he was transferred to
jail 209.
He was also sentenced to 10 years in prison In 2014, by
Abolqasem Salavati
Abolqasem Salavati ( fa, ابوالقاسم صلواتی) (born 16 July 1967) is an Iranian judge and former head of the 15th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran, Iran. In recent years, he had been the judge of numerous controversi ...
on the charge of "administration of opposition groups". In 2015, he was sentenced to six months in prison and 74
lashes
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on the charge of "insulting judicial authorities". He has also been imprisoned in
Fashafouyeh Prison
The Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary ( fa, زندان مرکزی تهران بزرگ) is a prison approximately 32 km (20 mi) south of Tehran. Sometimes called Tehran Central Prison, it is a large prison, also known as ''"فشافو ...
for one year where he was also denied access to medical services.
Cancellation of citizenship
In a message to
Ali Khamenei
Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei ( fa, سید علی حسینی خامنهای, ; born 19 April 1939) is a Twelver Shia ''marja and the second and current Supreme Leader of Iran, in office since 1989. He was previously the third president o ...
, the
Supreme Leader and
Hassan Rouhani
Hassan Rouhani ( fa, حسن روحانی, Standard Persian pronunciation: ; born Hassan Fereydoun ( fa, حسن فریدون, links=no); 12 November 1948) is an Iranian politician who served as the seventh president of Iran from 2013 to 2021. ...
, the
President of Iran, Fahimi requested the judiciary to revoke his official
citizenship due to the regime's
dictatorship.
References
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1974 births
Living people
People from Sanandaj
Iranian prisoners and detainees