Civil Activist Farhad Meisami Informed of New Charges at Revolutionary Court

Relatives of Farhad Meisami, a civil activist, announced that he is being retried at the Revolutionary Court while he has spent the last three and a half years in prison without any furlough.

Zia Nabavi, a former student activist who has himself served more than eight years in prison on political charges, wrote on Twitter on Friday, February 19, that Mr. Meisami was “transferred from Rajaei Shahr Prison to the Karaj Revolutionary Court the previous day, and in Branch 1 of the prosecution office, the charge of propaganda against the system was read to him.”

According to him, the basis of the charge against Mr. Meisami is “the publication of his writings in cyberspace.”

Farhad Meisami published a message in December of this year on the anniversary of the killing of Dariush Forouhar and Parvaneh Forouhar by agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence during the chain murders, praising their resistance against authoritarian rule.

He, who has been in prison without a single day of furlough since August 2018, has been sentenced to five years in prison for his civil activism in opposition to mandatory hijab.

Source: Radio Farda