Ahmad Zeidabadi [SEP] occupation
Ahmad Zeidabadi
Ahmad Zeidabadi (born 21 July 1965 in Zeidabad, Sirjan) is an Iranian journalist, academic, writer and political analyst and the secretary general of Office for Strengthening Unity. He is one of the notable figures of the Iranian reform movement.
Zeidabadi has been arrested multiple times for his journalistic work. In June 2009, shortly after the Iranian presidential election, Zeidabadi was arrested and held in conditions which the World Association of Newspapers called "horrific." In December 2009, Zeidabadi was sentenced to six years
of the “show trial”
(see Chapter 7). His wife was only allowed to visit him in Evin Prison for the first time on 17
August and said that he was in an extremely bad physical and emotional state. She said that
Ahmad Zeidabadi told her that he had been held in solitary confinement for 35 days after his
arrest in a coffin-like cell only 1.5m long. He had apparently gone on hunger strike for 17
days until doctors convinced him to stop. His wife