42-year-old Ashura protester sentenced to death

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Abdolreza Qanbari who was charged with moharebeh in a trial after Ashura for participating in Ashura protests (on December 27, 2009), was sentenced to death by Judge Salavati. Qanbari, 42, lives in a poor neighborhood in Varamin. He is a teacher and according to reports, his only crime is participating in popular protests on Ashura and chanting slogans against Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic. He was taken to security section '2-A' which belongs to the intelligence department of the Revolutionary Guards Corps after being arrested on Ashura. On January 30, 2010 he was taken to court where he confessed to participating in Ashura demonstrations and other things without the knowledge of his family, and while being deprived of a lawyer and barred from visits with his family and selected lawyer. A person who closely follows his case said that the confessions were extracted under pressure and torture. He has been deprived of a lawyer and was just recently transferred to a public section in prison