Journalist Mehrdad (Mohammed) Darwaa has been sentenced by the Bandar Langeh Revolutionary Court to 6 months of suspended imprisonment and 100 days of penal servitude.
According to the International Federation of Journalists, this Sunni civic activist has been convicted of “insulting the management” and “propaganda towards the regime,” leading to six months of suspended imprisonment and three months and ten days of precise imprisonment.
The report doesn’t specify when the trial happened or when the verdicts had been issued. Additionally, no particular particulars concerning the costs introduced towards Darwa have been disclosed.
In addition to the aforementioned prices, Mehrdad Darwa additionally faces accusations of “spreading lies” and “incitement to disrupt the safety of the nation.”
Darwa, hailing from Pedel village in Bandar Langeh metropolis, was apprehended by Qeshm safety forces in September of this yr. He was quickly launched on bail of three billion tomans on October 29, following roughly a month of incarceration.
The stress on journalists in Iran has escalated, with the arrest of a number of people intensifying within the wake of nationwide protests in 1401. Media activists have been summoned, interrogated, and arrested in giant numbers through the latter a part of final yr, with some dealing with courtroom proceedings.
Prior to those developments, a journalist residing in Iran knowledgeable Voice of America that the Islamic Republic expects the media to supply “propaganda bulletins,” subjecting journalists to stress for participating in “essential evaluation” beneath ambiguous prices corresponding to “blackmail.”