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Dr. Hamid Ghareh-Hassanlou

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Born: 1969

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Doctor

Known for: Mahsa Amini Protests (2022)

Charges: Killing a Basiji agent in funeral events of Hadis Najafi

Judicial Punishment: Corruption

Hamid Ghareh-Hassanlou (Born 1969) was arrested in national protests of Mahsa Amini in Iran. He is a Darvish Gonabadi, a doctor specialized in medical photography who was charged for killing a Basiji agent during the funerals of Hadis Najafi, by Revolutional court in Karaj. His wife, Farzane Ghareh-Hassanlou was also arrested with him and they both got hit during their arrest, causing him four broken ribs.

Activities
Hamid Ghareh-Hassanlou's was active in several charities and school building activities [4]. In 2020, he wrote a letter to the Head of Juricial of Iran as a Darvish Doctor asking for the freedom of two other doctors arrested during the 7th Golestan protests.

Arrest
An identity reported that in 13 Aban of 2022, around 2am, 10 men rushed into his house and got bitten. Hamid and his wife was arrested that night in front of his 10 year-old daughter.

Four of his ribs was reported broken due to being bitten by the men, and they where transported to the prison immediately. Their daughter was threaten not to call anyone until the dawn.

Transferring to the Hospital
Hamid Ghareh-Hassanlou was transferred to the hospital in Karaj, associated with IRGC. One of his coworker said: "The situation caused Hamid's lung to be torn and caused internal bleeding. It was so severe that caused him difficulty of breathing for him". His family was unaware of his situation, until being told by Hamid's medical network in the city. Despite his severe situation, he was then immediately trasfered to the prison. He was again transfered to the hospital and two surgeries have been conducted on his, so far. The last one happened in Aban's 5th. His lungs is full of blood, and he cannot breath without the aid devices. He is now in ICU waiting for his final surgery." [7]

Court and Capital Punishment
The judicial client is ettalat. After his first court session, he was charged with the second degree murder of killing a basij member, called Roohollah Ajamian and got the execution punishment. He did not had access to a lawyer during his arrest. During his court, the judge and the assigned lawyer tried to convince him to accept the murder punishment by threatening him.

The Islamic Republic's Juridicial power has said: "According to the published crime, five of the motahamman have been senstenced to death due to using knife, hitting and injuring with stone and punching or dragging the naked body on the street, and for the other 11 junior youth less than 18 years old, they got sentenced with long imprisonment" [8][9]. His brother has said that he has been moving a mullah to the hospital the same day to save his life, however, the Mullah did not accept to stand at witness stand in the court.

Mahmood Alizadeh Tabatabaei, a lawyer said he reported to he revolution court to accept Hamid's case, but the court did not allow him to do so. He was told he need to go to Divan Aali Keshvar if he wants to be Hamid's lawyer [11]. According to Harana, from the time his sentence was told, he was not able to call or see his family [12].

Responses

 * 1500 medical doctor around Iran has signed a petition asking for his freedom and man taghib for Hamid and his wife [13]. In this petition, written towards the head of Nezam Pezeshki Sazman of Iran, said Mr. Ghareh-Hassanlou is one of the well known doctors in Iran and was asked to get involved in order to convince the involved entities, or sending the Man taghib or billing him out, until in a peaceful and justice according to sharia law and the law while being able to access his lawyer".
 * A group of doctors gathered in front of Evin's prison at Azar 18th, 2022, in a protest against his execution sentenced, with signs saying "No to execution".
 * Ahmad Reza Niavarani, a doctor and the faculty member of Tehran Medical University, has published a video supporting Hamid and his wife. In this video, he said: "I can't even imagine them being able to harm anyone". He also mentioned some of their charity works, such as building school or gifting medical devices and volutneer works in behzisti centers.
 * Afshin Jafarzadeh, anastasia specialists in Imam Khomeini Hospital and a faculty member of University of Tehran, published a video in support of Hamid and his wife, calling them charitable and human lover people, and asked the juridictional sysem of Iran to be justiced and asked for second opinion and a committee to find the truth for Hamid and his wife.
 * Maedeh Behbahani, a general doctor and one of Hamids' classmates, published a video and showed her surprise of Hamids execution sentence. She said she cannot believe someone like him can harm anyone [17].
 * The global doctors organization in a letter to president Raisi, condemned the sentence of Hamid and called it an "obvious unjustice" [18].
 * A group of doctor gathered in front of Health Ministry of Iran protesting Hamids' arrest. However, a large group of them were arrested and transfered to Jannat abad police station, by 3 or 4 minibus. They have been released after signing taahod [19].
 * The heads of Medical science associations of Iran wrote a letter to Gholam-hossein Ejeei, the head of Jurisdiconal power of Iran, and asked to reevaluate Hamids case. In this letter, they said: "According to Made 169 of Ghanoon mojazat eslamic, the initial confess of him or his wife during the bazjooei and without the presence of judge, is not valid and requires reevaluation. the reason is that there are many xx of this confess, and the crime sentence does not match" [12].

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