Meeting with Abdolreza Davari

"Meeting" is a brief narrative about those whose lives are confined to a four-walled space called prison. In each segment of this series, we visit one of those who are referred to as 'political-prisoners' by human rights organizations. He is a 44-year-old journalist and a graduate in mechanical engineering from the University of Tehran up to the master's level. He has previously served as the deputy director of the official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran, IRNA, the former editor-in-chief of the Shahrvand newspaper, an advisor to the Minister of Interior, and the head of the Strategic Studies and Training Center of the Ministry of Interior. However, one of his most significant roles was as a media advisor to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former President of Iran. Abdolreza Davari was arrested on June 1, 2017, by judicial officers at his workplace and has since been serving his prison sentence in Evin Prison. In September 2015, he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Salavati, for insulting the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, a sentence that was later reduced to three years in prison by Branch 36 of the Appeals Court, presided over by Judge Zargar.