'Iranian rights activist and journalist Narges Mohammadi was released from jail in October, but faces a return to jail after being handed a new sentence of 80 lashes and 30 months incarceration'
Source: Iran sentences activist to 30 months jail, flogging - France 24
'Mohammadi, 49, a campaigner against the death penalty, was spokeswoman for the Defenders of Human Rights Centre in Iran -- founded by lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi -- when she was arrested in May 2015.
At that time, the mother-of-two was handed a 10-year prison sentence for "forming and managing an illegal group", among other charges, but was released last year after her sentence was reduced.
However, on Tuesday, the reformist newspaper Etemad reported she had been tried and found guilty of "propaganda against the system" of the Islamic republic, as well as "defamation" " and "rebellion against the prison authority".
The paper said she was charged with having "issued a statement against the death penalty", of having accused prison officials of "torture and harassment", and of organising a sit-in protest while in prison.
She was sentenced "to 80 lashes, 30 months in prison and two fines", the paper reported.'
Do you think the Iranian government is guilty in this case of oppressing its own citizen?
Source: Iran sentences activist to 30 months jail, flogging - France 24
'Mohammadi, 49, a campaigner against the death penalty, was spokeswoman for the Defenders of Human Rights Centre in Iran -- founded by lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi -- when she was arrested in May 2015.
At that time, the mother-of-two was handed a 10-year prison sentence for "forming and managing an illegal group", among other charges, but was released last year after her sentence was reduced.
However, on Tuesday, the reformist newspaper Etemad reported she had been tried and found guilty of "propaganda against the system" of the Islamic republic, as well as "defamation" " and "rebellion against the prison authority".
The paper said she was charged with having "issued a statement against the death penalty", of having accused prison officials of "torture and harassment", and of organising a sit-in protest while in prison.
She was sentenced "to 80 lashes, 30 months in prison and two fines", the paper reported.'
Do you think the Iranian government is guilty in this case of oppressing its own citizen?