Another Detainee from December 2019 Protests Sentenced to 6 Years Prison and Flogging
Seyyed Mostafa Hashemi-Zadeh, a civil engineering student at the University of Tehran who was detained during the December 2019 protests, has been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to 6 years in prison and flogging.
Seyyed Mostafa Hashemi-Zadeh announced in recent days through a Twitter post that due to his participation in a student gathering in December 2019 in the University of Tehran campus in protest against the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by a missile attack from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, he was sentenced by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to 6 years in prison and 74 lashes for charges of “assembly and conspiracy against national security” and “disruption of public order and peace.”
According to the University of Tehran student, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court has also issued additional punishments including a two-year ban from entering student dormitories and three months of unpaid public service work at Niyayesh Psychiatric Hospital in Tehran.
This is not the first time the Islamic Republic has sentenced one of those detained during the December 2019 protests to prison. Previously, Voice of America reported that eleven citizens from Amol who were detained during the December 2019 protests were sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to a combined total of 88 months in prison.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which departed Tehran on January 8, 2020 with 176 passengers heading to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, crashed minutes after takeoff as a result of a missile attack by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps near Parand New City in Tehran Province, and all passengers, mostly Iranians, were killed.
Morgan Ortagus, spokeswoman for the U.S. State Department, said on Friday, April 19, on the 100th day of the crash of the passenger aircraft in Iran in a Twitter message: “The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted and shot down Flight PS752 100 days ago and killed 176 passengers and crew members.”
Source: Voice of America
