the prosecutor of Tehran had charged Faezeh Hashemi with “propaganda against the system”
The activist daughter of Iran’s former president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said today.
The lawyer did not disclose details of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. But Tehran’s public prosecutor last year charged Hashemi with “propaganda against the system,” according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
State media had reported in September that he had been arrested for “inciting riots” in Tehran during protests sparked by the death of a Kurdish-Iranian woman in police custody.
“After her arrest, Ms. Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to five years in prison, but the sentence is not final,” her lawyer, Neda Shams, wrote on her Twitter account. In 2012 Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to prison and banned from political activities for “anti-state propaganda” dating back to the disputed 2009 presidential election. Her father died in 2017.
Former President Rafsanjani’s realist policies of economic liberalization and better relations with the West had equally strong supporters and critics during his lifetime. He was one of the founders of the Islamic Republic.
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