Exclusive | Arrest Warrant Issued for Hamidreza Najafi; Informed Source: He Has Been Asked to Present Himself

According to an exclusive report by Voice of America, Hamidreza Najafi, a civil activist and entrepreneur in Arak, has been summoned by phone to serve his prison sentence. An informed source told Voice of America that on Tuesday, December 6, 'the police station contacted Hamidreza Najafi and said they have an arrest warrant for you, please come in.' According to a source close to Hamidreza Najafi, the judicial authority 'issued the arrest warrant to the police station' and also contacted 'several people who had provided guarantees and told them to come and have him present himself.' This source also mentioned to Voice of America that Hamidreza Najafi intends to present himself to the police station to prevent government officials from storming his home, as 'the fear from the day they raided his house' still lingers in his young child. The report states that this arrest warrant has been issued for the enforcement of an eight-month prison sentence against Hamidreza Najafi. Additionally, see: Exclusive; The Appeals Court confirmed the eight-month prison sentence for Hamidreza Najafi. According to documents obtained by Voice of America, in addition to the enforcement of the prison sentence, a fine of 15 million tomans has also been imposed on this civil activist by the criminal court, and Najafi has been obligated to 'pay it within 10 days.' Reports received by Voice of America indicate that Hamidreza Najafi was also tried on December 1 for another case in the Revolutionary Court of Arak along with Mohammadreza Faraji, a civil activist, on charges of 'propaganda against the regime' by 'Judge Hosseini.' Hamidreza Najafi, who is facing several cases in various branches of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Arak as well as the criminal court, stated in an interview with the Persian section of Voice of America on October 25 that he had two separate cases with charges of 'encouraging people to war and killing each other' and 'propaganda against the regime' which were ongoing in the second and third branches of the Islamic Revolutionary Court, and after being consolidated, were assigned to the second branch, where he was sentenced to 'three years and six months in prison.' Additionally, in a case opened against Najafi in the second branch of the 110 criminal court, he was sentenced to '15 months in prison' for 'spreading falsehoods,' and in another case ongoing in the third criminal court with the same charge, he was fined '15 million tomans.' Hamidreza Najafi told Voice of America: 'Unfortunately, the Islamic Republic has not been inclined to solve the issue from the beginning and its approach has been to erase the issue. We have now become the issue, while we ourselves are the solution and the way to resolve the issue.' Also see: Exclusive | Hamidreza Najafi after receiving the prison sentence: The Islamic Republic wants to erase the issue.