Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof
Journalist, Person
1951 –
Who is Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof?
Yusef Azizi Bani-Torof is an Iranian Arab journalist and Arab nationalist living in exile in London. Bani-Torof is a former member of the Association of Iran's Writers and has translated many works from Arabic to Persian. As his surname indicates, he is from the "Bani Torof" Arab clan.
He is an associate of the antisemitic historical revisionist writer Nasser Pourpirar, whom he has extensively quoted in his own writings.
On April 25, 2005 he was arrested at his home by security forces in connection with the Arab youth riots in Khuzestan earlier that month and held at Evin Prison with other Iranian journalists and dissidents. He was released in June 2005.
In August 2008 he was sentenced to five years in prison. While appealing the decision, he left Iran and gained political asylum in the United Kingdom.
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