Arash Sadeghi

He was first arrested on July 9, 2009 after the results of the controversial 2009 Presidential Election were announced due to which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would be kept in power for a second term. He was then taken to custody from which he was released after 90 days. He was arrested again for a second time in December of the same year.

In 2013 he was sentenced to 19 years in prison for the following charges: propaganda against the government, defamation of the supreme leader, and threatening national security.{{Cite web |url=https://www.radiozamaneh.com/282035 |title=بازداشت و انتقال آرش صادقی به بند دو-الف زندان اوین |publisher=Radio Zamane}}{{Cite web |url= http://www.dw.com/fa-ir/آرش-صادقی-برای-اجرای-حکم-۱۹-سال-زندان-بازداشت-شد/a-19314946 |title=آرش صادقی برای اجرای حکم ۱۹ سال زندان بازداشت شد |publisher=Persian Deutsche Welle}}

Sadeghi went on a hunger strike on October 24, 2016{{Cite web|first=Mahsa|last=Alimardani|date=2016-12-29|title=Iranian Civil Rights Defender Continues Hunger Strike, Protesting His Wife's Arrest For Fiction Writings|url=https://globalvoices.org/2016/12/29/iranian-civil-rights-defender-continues-hunger-strike-protesting-his-wifes-arrest-for-fiction-writings/|access-date=2021-02-20|website=Global Voices|language=en}} to protest against the arrest of his wife who was detained on the charge of writing a fiction which has not yet been published.{{Cite web |url= https://ir.voanews.com/a/iran-human-rights/3627107.html |title=آرش صادقی پس از یک ماه و نیم به اعتصاب غذا در زندان ادامه می‌دهد |publisher=Persian VOA}}{{Cite web |url=http://fa.rfi.fr/آرش-صادقی-از-زندان-به-بیمارستان-منتقل-شد-20161226/ایران |title=آرش صادقی از زندان به بیمارستان منتقل شد |publisher=Persian Radio France}} The short story was handwritten in her personal diary which was confiscated in a raid by government security agents. Her short personal story in her journal was about Stoning Women to death which has been carried out by the Iranian judiciary.

As of 2016 there were multiple campaigns raising awareness about his condition.

During an earlier raid by Iranian security forces in 2010 when he was not home, his mother suffered a heart attack and died a few days later in hospital as a result of the heart attack. The security agents kept ransacking the house while she laid on the floor due to the heart attack.{{Cite web|date=2012-11-23|title=Iran's activists jailed and beaten for speaking out|url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/nov/23/iran-activists-jailed-speaking-out|access-date=2021-02-20|website=The Guardian|language=en}}

Arash Sadeghi has been diagnosed with a bone tumor.{{Cite web|date=2019-02-23|title=Seriously ill Iranian political prisoners intentionally denied medical treatment|url=https://irannewswire.org/seriously-ill-iranian-political-prisoners-intentionally-denied-medical-treatment/|access-date=2021-02-20|website=Iran News Wire|language=en-US}} Amnesty criticized the Iranian authorities for “disregarding medical advice which recommends his immediate transfer to a facility specializing in cancer treatment.”{{Cite web|title=Iran: Allow cancer treatment for Arash Sadeghi|url=https://www.amnesty.org.au/act-now/iran-treatment-for-arash/|access-date=2021-02-20|publisher=Amnesty International Australia|language=en-AU}}

Sadeghi was reported to have suffered pain in his shoulder for several months, with the prison clinic in Raja’i Shahr, Karaj, prescribing anti-inflammatory drugs. Finally he received an X-ray in May 2018 and later an MRI.{{Cite web|title=Amnesty Urges Transfer Of Jailed Activist To Cancer Treatment Center|url=https://en.radiofarda.com/a/amnesty-iran-activist-sadeghi-transfer-cancer-center/29346599.html|date=2018-07-06|access-date=2021-02-20|publisher=Radio Farda|language=en}}

On May 10, 2021, it was reported that Sadeghi had been released from prison on May 1, 2021, pursuant to a May 2020 law that reduced prison sentences for political prisoners.

Sadeghi has been on hunger strike for several times. His kidney and stomach ailments were attributed to the hunger strikes.{{Cite web|title=Iran: Three activists on hunger strike after violent prison transfer|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/02/iran-three-activists-on-hunger-strike-after-violent-prison-transfer/|access-date=2021-02-20|website=www.amnesty.org|language=en}}

On the 68th day of his strike, Iranian Twitter users started a widespread campaign to raise awareness about Arash Sadeghi's critical condition; consequently, the hashtag #SaveArash became the number 1 trending hashtag on Twitter.[http://www.bbc.com/persian/iran-38467283 آرش صادقی، زندانی سیاسی ترند اول جهانی در توییتر شد.], آرش صادقی، زندانی سیاسی، برای ساعاتی به ترند اول جهانی در شبکه توییتر تبدیل شد..{{Cite web|url=https://globalvoices.org/2016/12/29/iranian-civil-rights-defender-continues-hunger-strike-protesting-his-wifes-arrest-for-fiction-writings/|title=Iranian Civil Rights Defender Continues Hunger Strike, Protesting His Wife's Arrest For Fiction Writings {{!}} Global Voices|date=2016-12-29|website=Global Voices|access-date=2016-12-30}}

During the Mahsa Amini protests Sadeghi was arrested again on October 12, 2022. His father, Hossein Sadeghi, broke out the news on his Twitter account by writing only one sentence: "Arash Sadeghi was arrested." In a call to his family, Sadeghi said that he was transferred to ward 209 of Evin Prison which is run by the government's Ministry of Intelligence.{{cite web|url=https://iranwire.com/fa/news-1/108523-زینب-موسوی-و-آرش-صادقی-دستگیر-شدند/|title=زینب موسوی و آرش صادقی دستگیر شدند|date=2022-10-12 |access-date=2022-10-12 |language=fa |trans-title=Zeinab Mousavi and Arash Sadeghi were arrested}}

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