Career
As of 2009, he had spent most of the past ten years in jail, and was in poor health due to torture. He was first given an eight-year sentence in 1999, which was later commuted to four years. In 2005, he was arrested again and given a four-year prison sentence for "acts against state security", a three-year sentence for belonging to the People"s Mujahedin of Iran, and a flogging of forty lashes for "insulting the leadership and the state".
A 2006 independent medical examination concluded that he had been tortured while in prison.
In 2009, Human Rights Watch expressed concern at his condition and called for his immediate release.