From Iran dissident lawyer gets 6 years in prison
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleDissident Iranian lawyer Ghasem Sholesaadi has been sentenced to six years in prison, his lawyer says.
Sholesaadi was arrested on August 18 while taking part in a small protest outside Iran’s parliament against the barring of candidates from elections.
The conservative-dominated Guardian Council reserves the right to veto any candidates from presidential and parliamentary elections.
Mr Sholesaadi has been sentenced to five years of prison for “assembling and conspiring against national security” by the 15th branch of Tehran’s revolutionary court,” his lawyer, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, tells AFP.
“He also received one further year for ‘propagation against the system’,” Aghasi adds.
— AP
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