During the period he was detained, his family would go to the Prison every Wednesday in the hopes of seeing him, but they were never allowed visitation. The officials would only take the things or the food they had taken there from them to give to him. (ABC interview, January 31, 2021). Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court, Branch One, tried General Neshat in the afternoon of April 10, 1979. In that court session, which started in the morning of April 10, and continued until midnight, the cases of 11 individuals were adjudicated in the presence of reporters and photographers. (Kayhan and Ettela’at newspapers, April 11, 1979).
According to an Ettela’at newspaper report, the charges against Major General Ali Neshat were stated to have been, “according to the indictment issued by the Revolutionary Prosecutor, Mofsed fel-Arz (“one who spreads corruption on Earth”) and Mohareb (“one who wages war”) with God and His Messenger (the Prophet Mohammad) and the Imam of Time, Peace Be Upon Him’s Deputy (By the Imam of Time it is meant the twelfth Imam in the Shiite religion, said to have vanished and is to come back one day to bring peace on Earth. By his Deputy, it is meant Ayatollah Khomeini, who was said to be his Deputy)”.
