DUBAI, United Arab Emirates —
Iran has sentenced a outstanding human rights activist to greater than eight years jail, in accordance with her husband.
Paris-based Taghi Rahmani tweeted Sunday that his spouse, Narges Mohammadi, was tried in 5 minutes and sentenced to jail and 70 lashes. He has mentioned she is prohibited from speaking and has no entry to legal professionals. Final week, she was despatched to Gharchak jail close to Tehran.
Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November after she attended a memorial for a sufferer of violent 2019 avenue protests. Rahmani mentioned in December that his spouse was accused of “spying for Saudi Arabia.”
Mohammadi has a lengthy historical past of imprisonment, harsh sentences and worldwide requires opinions of her case.
In Might, the European Union known as on Iran to rethink her sentence of 30 months in jail and 80 lashes for protesting the killing of demonstrators in the course of the nation’s 2019 unrest.
An EU spokesperson urged Iran to look into Mohammadi’s case underneath “relevant worldwide human rights legislation and bearing in mind her deteriorating well being situation.” Mohammadi confirmed her sentence on the time in an Instagram put up, saying she didn't “settle for any of those sentences.”
Within the put up, Mohammadi mentioned one of many expenses in opposition to her was having a celebration and dancing in jail.
She was launched in October 2020 after serving 8½ years in jail after her preliminary 10-year sentence was commuted. In that case, she was sentenced in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court docket on expenses together with planning crimes to hurt the safety of Iran, spreading propaganda in opposition to the federal government, and forming and managing an unlawful group.
Earlier than her imprisonment, Mohammadi was vp of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Heart in Iran.
Mohammadi has been near Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who based the middle. Ebadi left Iran after the disputed reelection of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, which touched off unprecedented protests and harsh crackdowns by authorities.
In 2018, Mohammadi, an engineer, was awarded the EU’s 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize.
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