Aliasghar Honarmand Explained

Aliasghar Honarmand is an Iranian journalist. He is the founder of the gadget news website Narenji.[1]

He is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence in Iran, having been arrested in December 2013 and tried by the Iranian government, allegedly for espionage against the state. More than a dozen members of the Narenji team were arrested alongside Honarmand. Some remain in jail, serving sentences of between two and seven years. Their arrest was televised by Iranian state TV.[2]

They were accused of trying to orchestrate a '...soft overthrow' of the Iranian regime", having attended training courses hosted by the BBC. The Iranian state has been known to suspect the BBC of being a tool for UK espionage in the region, a claim the BBC denies.[3] Honarmand unsuccessfully appealed his sentence in 2015.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Why isn't the BBC protesting about Aliasghar Honarmand's jailing in Iran? . Dehghan . Saeed Kamali . 2014-07-10 . The Guardian . en-GB . 2019-09-29.
  2. Web site: How Iran's Gadget Bloggers Became Victims of the Revolutionary Guard. O'Brien. Danny. 2014-04-23. Electronic Frontier Foundation. en. 2019-06-04.
  3. News: Why isn't the BBC protesting about Aliasghar Honarmand's jailing in Iran? Saeed Kamali Dehghan. Dehghan. Saeed Kamali. 2014-07-10. The Guardian. 2019-06-04. en-GB. 0261-3077.
  4. Web site: Ali Asghar Honarmand's Case in the Court of Appeal. main. 2015-08-20. Hrana - News Agency. en-US. 2019-06-05.

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