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The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said Tuesday.
The verdict against Iranian activist Fazeh Hashemi is “not final,” lawyer Neda Shams said in a tweet. “The client is still in prison and has other lawsuits against her,” Shams added.
Hashemi was indicted by Tehran’s prosecutor last year on charges of “propaganda against the regime,” state news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday.
According to ISNA, she was arrested in September and transferred to Evin Prison.
Iran has detained a number of high-profile activists in recent months, including writer and poet Mona Borzoway, singer Shervin Hajipour and Iranian footballer Hossein Mahini, as anti-government protests rock the country.
Over the past decade, Hashemi has been jailed several times for making anti-government statements and participating in protests.
She spent several months in prison after being arrested in 2012 for making anti-government statements.
Her father was a revolutionary who fought against the Shah’s regime and its pro-Western socio-economic policies, but when he took office a year after the end of the Iran-Iraq war, he pushed for liberalization and privatization programs.
Rafsanjani died in 2017 at the age of 82.
As many as 41 more people have protested in recent months as authorities try to crack down on a wave of anger across Iran, according to statements by both Iranian officials and Iranian media confirmed by CNN and 1500Tasvir. have been sentenced to death, but the actual number could be much higher.
The execution of two youths in Iran on Saturday, one a karate champion and one a volunteer children’s coach, in connection with nationwide protests, has sparked outrage around the world. rice field.
The death in police custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, Masa Amini, in September brings the total number of people now known to have been executed in connection with the protests to four. reached.
