Fazeh Hashemi, daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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The activist daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said Tuesday.
Lawyers did not provide details of the charges against Fazeh Hashemi.However, Tehran prosecutors last year charged Hashemi with “propaganda against the regime,” according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
In September, state media reported that she had been arrested for “inciting riots” during protests sparked by the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody in Tehran.
Demonstrations have been one of the biggest challenges for Iran’s clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution.
“Fazeh Hashemi was sentenced to five years in prison after her arrest, but the sentence has not been finalized,” defense attorney Neda Shams wrote on her Twitter account.
In 2012 Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to prison and banned from political activity on charges of “anti-state propaganda” dating back to the 2009 presidential election.
Her father passed away in 2017.
Rafsanjani’s pragmatic policy of economic liberalization and better relations with the West attracted ardent supporters as well as ardent critics throughout his life. He was one of the founders of the Islamic Republic.
