| Mohammadreza Jalaeipour | |
| Native Name: | Persian: محمدرضا جلاییپور |
| Nationality: | Iranian |
| Father: | Hamidreza Jalaeipour |
| Field: | Sociology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Homa Katouzian |
| Thesis Title: | Clerical Authority in Contemporary Shi‘i Islam: A Study of Marja‘iyya in Qom |
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| Thesis Year: | TBA |
Mohammadreza Jalaeipour (Persian: محمدرضا جلاییپور, born 1982) is an Iranian sociologist and political activist.
He is the son of Hamidreza Jalaeipour. Mohammadreza Jalaeipour has been a PhD student at St Antony's College, University of Oxford.[1]
He was a founder of pro-reformist Third Wave campaign in Iranian presidential election, 2009.
Jalaeipour has been detained on a number of occasions by the Iranian authorities. While still a student at Oxford University in June 2009 he was prevented from returning to England after visiting Iran, without his family knowing where he was taken.[2] [3] He was arrested again in June 2010 in Tehran and kept in solitary confinement before being transferred to a prison in Mashhad.[4] He was released in August 2010 with bail of three billion rials, but was never charged. In April 2018 he was arrested in Iran and held without charge for 77 days.