The human rights group Hengaw has reported that the Islamic Republic’s judiciary has sentenced eleven pro-constitutional activists to a mixed whole of 95 years and eight months in jail. The court docket additionally imposed extra punishments together with financial fines, a ban on residing in Tehran and adjoining provinces, and confiscation of cellphones and web modems.
Among the activists, Arsham Rezaei obtained a 15-year sentence for 4 costs, Vahid Sarkhgil was sentenced to 16 years for 3 costs, Kazem Alinajad Baranloo to 11 years for 3 costs, Meysam Gholami and Vahid Ghadirzadeh every to six years, Ali Asghar Hasani-Rad to eight years and 15 lashes, and Saman Rezaei to five years. Additionally, Fatemeh Haqparast Sohi confronted an 8-month sentence, Payam Bastani 16 years, Mohammadreza Kamrani-Nejad 6 years, and Hojatollah Rafiei 6 years.
The costs in opposition to these pro-constitutional political activists included “meeting and collusion to commit crimes in opposition to inner and exterior safety,” “propaganda in opposition to the regime,” “insulting” present and former leaders Ali Khamenei and Ruhollah Khomeini, and “inciting the general public to commit crimes in opposition to safety.”
These activists, a few of whom had beforehand been arrested for his or her actions, have been transferred to Evin and Tehran’s Greater prisons by authorities forces in autumn this 12 months. Their trial passed off on the 4th of Dey at Branch 26 of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court. Earlier, on the twenty fifth of Mordad, 1402, a supply knowledgeable Voice of America’s Persian service {that a} joint case had been opened in opposition to six of those activists by the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization, with costs of “meeting and collusion” and “propaganda in opposition to the regime.”