Prison sentence and fine imposed on ‘Minu Rozhedaar’ and ‘Hamid Abbasi’

‘Minu Rozhedaar’ and ‘Hamid Abbasi’, civil activists, have been sentenced to imprisonment and monetary fines by the Revolutionary Court.

Minu Rozhedaar, a civil activist and mother of three residing in Tehran, was arrested on February 20, 2025 by security forces in Tehran and transferred to the IRGC Intelligence detention facility known as Section ‘One Alef’. After one week, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Evin Prison.

This civil activist, after 25 days of uncertainty following her arrest, was charged with ‘propaganda against the system’ at the Evin Prosecutor’s Office. After one and a half months, on March 4, 2025, she was released from Evin Prison on bail.

Now Judge ‘Iman Afshari’, head of Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, has sentenced Minu Rozhedaar to 14 months imprisonment and payment of 30 million tomans in fines for charges of ‘propaganda against the system and spreading falsehoods’. The prison sentence issued against her is suspended for a period of four years.

Hamid Abbasi, a Turkic Azerbaijani civil activist residing in ‘Salmas’, was also arrested on October 31, 2024 by security forces and transferred to the Salmas Intelligence Department detention facility. During his detention at the intelligence office, he was subjected to severe pressure to extract forced confessions.

He, who had been charged with ‘propaganda against the system’ and ‘insulting Ali Khamenei’, was released on bail of 700 million tomans following the first court hearing on his charges. Hamid Abbasi has now been sentenced to imprisonment by the Salmas Revolutionary Court.

‘Abdolaziz Algholi-Pourazadeh’, judge of the Salmas Revolutionary Court, sentenced him to 7 months and 16 days imprisonment for ‘propaganda against the system’, 31 months and 16 days imprisonment for ‘insulting Ali Khamenei’, and 15 months and one day of punitive imprisonment for ‘suspected membership in opposition groups’. Hamid Abbasi was sentenced in total to 4 years, 6 months and one day imprisonment.