Tehran:
An Iranian courtroom has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a yr in jail for “propaganda in opposition to the state”, the jailed activist’s lawyer mentioned on Tuesday.
Mohammadi, 52, has been jailed since November 2021 over a number of previous convictions regarding her advocacy in opposition to the compulsory hijab for girls and capital punishment in Iran.
Lawyer Mostafa Nili mentioned on social media platform X that “Mohammadi was sentenced to 1 yr in jail for propaganda in opposition to the system.”
Nili mentioned “the explanations for issuing this sentence” embrace calls to boycott parliamentary elections, letters to Swedish and Norwegian lawmakers and “feedback about Mrs Dina Ghalibaf”.
Rights teams have mentioned that Ghalibaf, a journalist and scholar, had been taken into custody after accusing safety forces on social media of placing her in handcuffs and sexually assaulting her throughout a earlier arrest at a metro station.
Ghalibaf has since been launched.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan On-line web site mentioned on April 22 that Ghalibaf “had not been raped” and that she was being prosecuted for making a “false assertion”.
Mohammadi has refused to attend a trial session in Tehran earlier this month, and in March shared an audio message from jail by which she decried a “full-scale conflict in opposition to ladies” within the Islamic republic.
Iranian police in current months have intensified enforcement of the nation’s Islamic gown code for girls, notably making use of video surveillance.
Below guidelines adopted shortly after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, ladies in Iran are required to cowl their hair and gown modestly in public areas.
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