Additional Name(s): محمد نوری

Gender: Male

Current Location: Arak Central Prison, Arak, Markazi

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Unspecified

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Sentence: Death

Date of Detainment: October//2015

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Imprisonment

Reason for Persecution: Blasphemy (General) Blasphemy (Other) Online Activity

Nature of Charges: Blasphemy Insulting Public Officials & Institutions

Mohammad Nouri

Extra Bio Info:

Mohammad Nouri is imprisoned and sentenced to death for blasphemy. 

In or around October 2015, authorities reportedly arrested Nouri after accusing him of posting anti-Islamic content on social media. He was reportedly denied access to a lawyer and subjected to prolonged solitary confinement. 

In February 2016, it was reported that an appeals court upheld Nouri's death sentence.  It is unclear when this originally sentence was issued. According to a September 2016 report, Nouri was sentenced to 16 months in prison for “insulting the Supreme Leader” (Art. 514 IPC) and then death.  United For Iran reports he was charged with "insulting Islamic sanctities" (Art. 513 IPC).

In March 2017, it was reported that the Supreme Court had confirmed the death sentence of one of Nouri's co-defendants, Sina Dehghan.  However, there is no word whether or not the court confirmed Nouri's death sentence. 

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