Act Daily News
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The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to 5 years in jail, her lawyer mentioned Tuesday.
The verdict towards Faezeh Hashemi, who’s a identified Iranian activist, is “not final,” the lawyer, Neda Shams, mentioned in a tweet. “The client is still in prison and there are other cases against her,” Shams added.
Hashemi was indicted final yr by Tehran’s public prosecutor on prices of “propaganda against the system,” state-aligned news company ISNA mentioned on Tuesday.
She was arrested and transferred to Evin jail in September, in accordance with ISNA.
Iran has detained a variety of high-profile activists in latest months, together with author and poet Mona Borzouei, singer Shervin Hajipour and Iranian soccer participant Hossein Mahini, as anti-government protests rocked the nation.
Over the previous decade, Hashemi has been jailed a number of instances for making anti-government statements and taking part in protests.
She spent months in jail after a 2012 arrest for making anti-government statements.
Her father was a revolutionary who fought the Shah’s regime and its Western-leaning social and financial insurance policies however pushed for liberalization and privatization applications when he grew to become president a yr after the tip of the Iran-Iraq struggle.
Rafsanjani died in 2017 aged 82.
As many as 41 extra protesters have obtained demise sentences in latest months as officers try and crack down on the swell of offended public sentiment throughout Iran, in accordance with statements from each Iranian officers and in Iranian media reviewed by Act Daily News and 1500Tasvir, however the true quantity might be a lot larger.
The executions on Saturday of two younger males in Iran, one a karate champion, the opposite a volunteer youngsters’s coach, in reference to the nationwide protests, sparked outrage world wide.
The whole variety of individuals now identified to have been executed in reference to the protests, sparked by the demise of 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian girl Mahsa Amini in police custody in September, has reached 4.