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Kourosh Sehati
Iranian journalist and human rights activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kourosh Sehati (کوروش صحتی in Persian) (born 7 April 1978) is an Iranian journalist, one of the well-known political and human rights activists and former leaders of the students’ movement in Iran.
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Sehati was expelled from the Islamic Azad University of Varamin because of his political activities and help in the organization of the July 1999 student pro-democracy protests against the Iranian government.
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Arrests
He was arrested several times between 2000 and 2004 and spent around three years in the prisons. While being in Sepah prison that belongs to the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, Sehati spent eight months in the solitary cell. As a prisoner of conscience, he experienced tortures. Because of his activities focused on support of the democratic movements, freedom of speech and human rights in Iran, the authorities of Iran threatened his family members several times. The government was also behind the banishment of Gozaresh-e-Rooz newspaper and Hoviat-e-Kheesh weekly magazine, where he worked as a political editor and the member of editorial board.
After several arrests and detention terms, he decided to proceed with his media and human rights activists from abroad for safety reasons. Sehati fled to Turkey in 2004 and then was accepted by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as a political refugee.
Sehati has lived in the United States for more than twelve years and during that time has been interviewed by many TV channels and radio stations about his activities in Iran and on the topic of current Iranian issues.
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Work
Sehati worked for the Persian service of Voice of America based in Washington, D.C. as an international broadcaster, anchor, and producer from 2007 until August 2016. He currently works for the Iran International TV in London, UK.
His reports are usually focused on political issues inside Iran, as well as, on the human rights issues, democratic movements in particular on students, workers, and women movements in the country.
He holds a BA degree in Political Science from George Mason University in Virginia and a MS degree in International Security from Birkbeck, University of London.
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Military service
On 18 March 2025, Sehati announced he had joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine to defend against the Russian invasion. He is the first Iranian foreign volunteer for Ukraine, explaining "Russia hurt Iran a lot over the last 200 years."[1]
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