Kaveh Taheri

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Kaveh Taheri (Persian: کاوه طاهری; born February 23, 1982) is a Turkey-based Iranian Researcher and Writer Interested in Investigative Journalism Regarding Politics, Economy, Social and Human Rights. Taheri fled Iran through Turkey to save his life. He founded 'The Institute of Capacity Building for Political Studies' (ICBPS.org) – as a sister organization of ICBHR, registered in the U.S. – is a non-governmental research institute focusing on political studies, international security, and international relations.

Arrest and Imprisonment

Taheri was designated an imprisoned blogger by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). He was arrested on the morning of Sunday, September 23, 2012 in connection with his blog.

After his arrest, Taheri was detained in “Pelak-e 100,” a detention center operated by the Ministry of Intelligence, located on Sepah Street in Shiraz, and then imprisoned in Shiraz's Adel Abad prison. While in custody, Taheri was held in solitary confinement, subjected to psychological torture, threatened with rape by other prisoners, and forced to give false confessions that were taped by the Iranian authorities.

One of Taheri's relatives wrote in a report to the Human Rights Activists News Agency that “On April 23, 2013 the prison authorities without consideration about court appointment schedule transferred Kaveh, a Baha’i cellmate and a few more prisoners by a car to different courts -Revolutionary court, Atlasi, Municipality square and …-. Kaveh was moving into revolutionary court fettered whereas his lawyer was not present and because the court did not schedule appointment for him then after a few hours waiting they were transferred to prison with the same car. Among prisoners in the car there was one who was arrested on charge of murder and when the car was moving back to prison a group of armed men who might be his relatives or people related to him were ambushing close-by Municipality square court to free this prisoner. They did not succeed and the car ran away anyway and transferred back the prisoners back to prison. But if clashes were happened then life of Kaveh and the others were in serious risk and no one knows what catastrophe was going to happen. The least expectation we have is to categorize the prisoners and separate the political prisoners that the others and prevent these kind of problems.”

In its 2013 "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," the US Department of State mentioned Taheri as an imprisoned blogger who was held for more than four months without trial, including 52 days of isolation in a Ministry of Intelligence and Security detention center known as Number 100, before being transferred to Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz.

Life in Exile

Taheri now works on exposing what the mainstream media is often reluctant to do so. He works on Middle East issues, especially Iran, while attempting to improve living conditions for refugees awaiting resettlement in Turkey. He has repeatedly protested against the excruciating life refugees in Turkey experience, covering the subject in numerous articles and news reports. He has written numerous articles and stories on Iran since fleeing the country.

Taheri was one of the Iranian dissidents who criticized the Iran Deal in 2015.

Writings

1. American Thinker
2. Algemeiner
3. GATESTONE INSTITUTE
4. Huff Post
5. PJ Media
6. Times Of Israel
7. American Truth Project (ATP)
8. Education of Children in Montenegro
9. The Independent Academia.EDU
10. Institute of Capacity Building for Political Studies (ICBPS)
11. Iran's Economy In Free Fall
12. Worldview Weekend
13. Boroujerdi Civil Rights Group

References

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