Following the judicial authorities’ fabrication of a case towards Manouchehr Bakhtiari in jail, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Karaj has sentenced Pouya Bakhtiari’s father to “18 years of imprisonment and 74 lashes.” The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) introduced on Tuesday, nineteenth Dey, that the sentence issued by Branch 1 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Karaj, presided over by “Mousa Asaf-al-Hosseini,” was communicated to Manouchehr Bakhtiari on the identical day.
Sara Abbasi, the spouse of Manouchehr Bakhtiari, knowledgeable HRANA that on Tuesday, after eight days, the justice-seeking prisoner contacted her and knowledgeable her in regards to the sentence delivered in jail. Manouchehr Bakhtiari, who’s serving his sentence in Choubin-dar Prison, Qazvin, has been convicted of “meeting and collusion” and “forming and managing a bunch in our on-line world with the purpose of disrupting the safety of the nation,” leading to a 10-year jail sentence. Additionally, he has been sentenced to at least one 12 months of punitive imprisonment and 74 lashes for the cost of “spreading lies.”
Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court of Karaj additionally convicted Manouchehr Bakhtiari for “propaganda actions towards the regime and disturbing public opinion” with a two-year punitive imprisonment, and for “collaboration with teams opposing the regime,” leading to a five-year punitive imprisonment.
The listening to for the accusations towards Pouya Bakhtiari’s father was held on the third of Dey in jail through video convention with Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court. The new sentence and the way of its supply in jail with out correct authorized illustration have raised important issues in regards to the remedy of political prisoners and the judicial course of in Iran.