Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour Ahmadi

Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour was directly responsible for the illegal use, distortion and misrepresentation of personal information of Nazanin Zaghari,a British-Iranian prisoner, including the abuse of the content of her emails and private and family photos, in order to produce and broadcast the defamatory program "Raddepa" on 23 and 29 of November 2017 with the aim of portraying Zaghari as a spy.

On 18 March, 1994, Nazanin Zaghari traveled to Iran with her 22-month-old daughter, Gabriel, to visit her family for Nowruz. On 6 April, 2016, she was arrested by members of the Revolutionary Guards at Imam Khomeini Airport, while boarding a plane with her daughter to leave Iran for Britain. She was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of "collaborating with foreign institutions" and "participating in the soft overthrow of the government".

“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020

https://justice4iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ORWELLIAN-STATE-ISLAMIC-REPUBLIC-OF-IRAN%E2%80%99S-STATE-MEDIA-AS-A-WEAPON-OF-MASS-SUPPRESSION-English-1.pdf 

Raddepa programme: episode 1, IRIB News Agency, 23 November 2017

https://www.iribnews.ir/fa/news/1913706/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%86-%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%DB%8C-%D8%A8%DB%8C-%D8%B3%DB%8C-%D9%88-%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%DB%8C-%DA%A9%D9%87-%D9%BE%D8%A7%DA%A9-%D9%86%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%AF

Raddepa programme: episode 2, IRIB News Agency, 29 November 2017

https://www.iribnews.ir/fa/news/1923698/%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B4-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%87-%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86

Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour was directly involved in interrogating, obtaining forced confessions from Sepideh Qalyan, a labour activist, and producing and broadcasting a defamatory film about labour activists Sepideh Gholian and Ismail Bakhshi, during the preliminary investigation and before the court ruling. Sepideh Gholian was arrested in November 2018 along with at least 19 other labour activists, including all members of the Hafta Tappeh Sugarcane Workers' Representatives Assembly, and was released on bail in late December 2018.

On Saturday, 19 January  2019, Islamic Republic State TV broadcast the forced confessions of Ismail Bakhshi, Sepideh Gholian, and Ali Nejati, a member of the board of directors of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers Union, in a film entitled "Burnt Plot," in which these activists confessed to their relations with the "Marxist and subversive groups outside Iran".

A day after the broadcast of her TV confession on IRIB, Sepideh Gholian was arrested again along with her brother "Mahdi Gholyan" on Sunday, 29 January, 2019. Sepideh Gholian's father said on the way she was detained: "At 7 o'clock in the morning, 12 male and two female officers violently stormed the house, broke my son 's teeth, beat me and my wife, and said,' We will kill your daughter, too. Please do not let our children be killed. '

On Wednesday 25 January, 2019, Gholian revealed on her twitter account about the role of Zabihpour in her interrogation:  "Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour was in the interrogation room to prepare a text for us to read in front of the camera after hours of physical and mental torture”.

On Thursday, 26 January, the Justice for Iran Organisation announced the complaint of Sepideh Gholian against the head of the IRIB, the editor-in-chief of the 20:30 News Show, and Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour. According to Gholian, only a few minutes after her complaint against Zabihpour was registered, the case was dismissed without any preliminary investigation. On 6 February 2019, Gholian was summoned to court due to a lawsuit against her, filed by Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour.

On Saturday, January 19  2019, Islamic Republic State TV broadcast the forced confessions of Ismail Bakhshi, Sepideh Gholian, and Ali Nejati, a member of the board of directors of the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Workers Union, in a film entitled "Burnt Plot," in which these activists were forced to falsely confessed to their relations with the "Marxist and subversive groups outside Iran".

A day after the broadcast of her TV confession on IRIB, Sepideh Gholian was arrested again along with her brother "Mahdi Gholyan" on Sunday, January 29, 2019. Sepideh Gholian's father said on the way she was detained: "At 7 o'clock in the morning, 12 male and two female officers violently stormed the house, broke my son 's teeth, beat me and my wife, and said,' We will kill your daughter, too. Please do not let our children be killed. '

On Wednesday January 25, 2019, Gholian revealed on her twitter account about the role of Zabihpour in her interrogation:  "Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour was in the interrogation room to prepare a text for us to read in front of the camera after hours of physical and mental torture”.

On Thursday, January 26, the Justice for Iran Organization announced the complaint of Sepideh Gholian against the head of the IRIB, the editor-in-chief of the 20:30 News Show, and Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour. According to Gholian, only a few minutes after her complaint against Zabihpour was registered the case was dismissed without any preliminary investigation. On February 6, 2019, Gholian was summoned to court due to a lawsuit against her filed by Ameneh Sadat Zabihpour.

“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020

https://justice4iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ORWELLIAN-STATE-ISLAMIC-REPUBLIC-OF-IRAN%E2%80%99S-STATE-MEDIA-AS-A-WEAPON-OF-MASS-SUPPRESSION-English-1.pdf 

Plaintiff in the position of the accused; Sepideh Gholian was summoned to the Revolutionary Court, Justice for Iran, 14 March, 2017

https://justice4iran.org/persian/reports/sepideh-gholian-revollutionary-cout/

Letter from 13 human rights organisations to the European Union regarding the broadcast of "Forced Confessions", Interview with Shadi Amin, Radio Farda, 3 February, 2017

https://justice4iran.org/persian/reports/to-eu-irib-sanction-radiofarad-with-shadi-amin/

Audio file of Masih Alinejad's interview with Sepideh Gholian's father, PeykIran,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6quf2qhiiM&feature=emb_title&ab_channel=Peykeiran

Video "Burnt Plot", IRIB News Agency, 20 December, 2016

https://www.iribnews.ir/fa/news/2332969/%D8%B7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%AE%D8%AA%D9%87-

Zabihpour was involved in obtaining forced confessions from Fatemeh Davand, a protester detained during the November 2019 nationwide protests. Zabihpour is also responsible for violating Davand’s right to a fair trial, by broadcasting Davand’s forced confessions as part of a defamatory program on 20 November, 2017 with the aim of making accusations, including links to political organisations abroad prior to Davand’s trial.

Fatemeh Davand, 42, married and the mother of three children, was arrested by Islamic Republic security forces during the November 2019 Bukan protests against rising gas prices. A video of Davand during the protests went viral, in which she was standing on the roof of a car surrounded by the protesters and giving speeches. Davand was sentenced to five years in prison in May 2018.

“Orwellian state: the Islamic republic of Iran state media as a weapon of mass suppression”, Justice for Iran, 1 June 2020

https://justice4iran.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/ORWELLIAN-STATE-ISLAMIC-REPUBLIC-OF-IRAN%E2%80%99S-STATE-MEDIA-AS-A-WEAPON-OF-MASS-SUPPRESSION-English-1.pdf

Video of Fatemeh Davand Forced Confessions, Khabarban, November 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW9waRXknQM&ab_channel=%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%82%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B6%D8%A7Salighereza%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AA%DB%8CTV

 Fatemeh Davand, one of the detainees of the November 2019 protests on hunger strike, Iranwire, 12 November, 2020

https://iranwire.com/fa/news/west-azerbaijan/43064