Meeting with Ayoub Parkar

"Meeting" is a brief narrative about those whose lives are confined to a prison called incarceration. In each segment of this series, we visit one of those who are referred to by human rights organizations as "political prisoners of conscience." Ayoub Parkar served as a pilot for four years during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, but it was after the war that he became a critic of the government and the Islamic Republic, leading to his dismissal from the military due to these criticisms. Ayoub Parkar was arrested in January 2009 on charges of having connections with the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization. Nearly a year later, in December 2009, he was tried in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir-Abbasi. Because Mr. Parkar's charges were security-related, little information about his trial process and court proceedings reached the media, and he was tried in silence. The information contained in this audio file pertains to the time of its preparation, compilation, and publication, and the status of the political and ideological prisoner in question may have changed since what is heard in this program.