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Iranian rights activist’s husband says she was sentenced to prison, lashes
2022-01-26
[IsraelTimes] Narges Mohammadi was arrested in November after she attended memorial for victim of violent mostly peaceful 2019 protests, is accused of spying for Saudis

Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites....
has sentenced a prominent human rights
...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless...
 activist to more than eight years in prison, according to her husband.

Gay Paree-based Taghi Rahmani tweeted on Sunday that his wife, Narges Mohammadi, was tried in five minutes and sentenced to prison and 70 lashes. He has said she is prohibited from communicating and has no access to lawyers. Last week, she was sent to Gharchak prison near Tehran.

Authorities arrested Mohammadi in November after she attended a memorial for a victim of violent mostly peaceful 2019 protests. Rahmani said in December his wife stood accused of "spying for Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
Mohammadi has a long history of imprisonment, harsh sentences and international calls for reviews of her case.

In May, the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
 called on Iran to reconsider her sentence of 30 months in prison and 80 lashes on charges of protesting the killing of protesters during the country’s 2019 unrest.

Mohammadi confirmed her sentence at the time in an Instagram post, saying she does not "accept any of these sentences."

In the post, Mohammadi said one of the charges against her is having a party and dancing in jail.

She was released from jail in October 2020, after serving eight and a half years in prison, after her initial, 10-year sentence was commuted. In that case, she was sentenced in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on charges including planning crimes to harm the security of Iran, spreading propaganda against the government and forming and managing an illegal group.

Before imprisonment, Mohammadi was vice president of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.

Mohammadi has been close to Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, who founded the center. Ebadi left Iran after the disputed re-election of then-president Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad in 2009, which touched off unprecedented protests and harsh crackdowns by authorities.

In 2018, Mohammadi, an engineer, was awarded the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranian activist sentenced to 16 years in prison: I have no hope in judiciary
2018-12-17
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Political prisoner and lawyer, Narges Mohammadi, sent a letter to Iran’s attorney general, saying that she is not getting her right to receiving medical care and treatment in prison.

In 2015, the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Iran had sentenced Mohammadi to 16 years in prison for "belonging to a campaign protesting the death penalty
, colluding against national security, and spreading propaganda against the regime."

In an interview with the Defenders of Human Rights Center, Mohammadi revealed that her request to be seen by a doctor had been ignored several times, with no clear reason by the Iranian officials.

In her last letter, Mohammadi also stated that she suffers from lung disease, gynecological problems and as well as issues with her gallbladder. The prison’s doctors asserted that she should be treated outside of the prison.

"I have no hope in my country’s judiciary; all I ask of Tehran’s attorney general is to provide me the right conditions so that I can receive the necessary treatment and see specialized doctors," she said.

Narges often sends letters from her prison cell to Iranian officials since she was imprisoned in 2015. She usually criticizes security and defense governmental entities and their control over the country’s judiciary.

YEARS OF IMPRISONMENT
One Mohammadi’s most famous letters sent from her prison cell said: "I do not have a real and clear image of my twins, anymore."

She had not seen them for three years. In another letter she sent months ago to president Rouhani, she said: "The people did not vote to support the regime, but rather to apply the law and fulfill civil society activists’ demands in the country."

The Defenders of Human Rights Center website published Narges Mohammadi’s last letter, a few days after announcing the death of political activist Wahid Sayadi Nassiri in the central prison in Qom, who died of a hunger strike that he began last October.

She was heavily involved with the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran headed by Shirin Ebadi, the first Iranian and first Moslem woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

In September 2016, the Tehran Court of Appeals sentenced her to 16 years in prison, 10 of which could not be appealed.

She was accused of "propaganda against the state," "assembly and collusion against national security" and "membership in the [now banned] Defenders of Human Rights Center."

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran human rights activist jugged for 11 years
2011-01-11
TEHRAN - An Iranian human rights lawyer who has worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been jailed for 11 years for actions deemed “detrimental to national security”, the activist’s lawyer said on Monday.

Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has worked to defend people accused of political crimes, was arrested in September and charged with undermining national security.

“My client has been handed an 11-year compulsory prison term, banned from practising law for 20 years and given a 20-year ban on leaving the country,” Mahnaz Parakand, Sotoudeh’s attorney, told Reuters by telephone. She was convicted of taking “hostile actions”, involvement in propaganda activities and colluding against national security, said the lawyer.
In other words, she did her job.
Sotoudeh was also found guilty of being a member of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, a banned rights association founded by Nobel laureate Ebadi, Parakand said.

Shortly after her detention, Sotoudeh, a mother of two, went on a hunger strike, declining all liquids and food. She stopped the protest in early November.

The reformist website Kaleme quoted Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, as saying that he had expected a much lighter one. “We will have 20 days to appeal,” he said.

Khandan said he and his wife’s lawyer had also been summoned to court. “In the written summons the term ‘accused’ was used against me. In previous summons I had to defend myself for talking to the press,” he said.
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