Several Detainees from Last December’s Protests Against Ukrainian Plane Downing Sentenced to Prison

Five citizens from Amol named Shora Fakri, Maysam Khalili, Mohsen Rezaei, Salman Foroghi, and another person with the surname Raei, who were arrested during the December 2019 protests, have been sentenced to a total of 30 months in prison by the Revolutionary Court.

According to a report by the Iran Human Rights website, these Amol residents were sentenced on Tuesday, Ordibehesht 2, in separate cases by the city’s Revolutionary Court under the presidency of Judge Mahdavi to six months in prison each on charges of “propaganda against the system,” and this verdict was announced to these individuals on Wednesday, Ordibehesht 3.

It should be noted that this report did not provide information regarding the time of arrest or release of these individuals.

According to the report, the issued verdict resulted from these citizens’ participation in the December protests of the previous year, following the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by a missile attack from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the death of 176 passengers on this flight.

Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which departed Tehran on January 8, 2020, with 176 passengers bound for Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, crashed minutes after takeoff due to a missile attack by the Revolutionary Guards near Parand New City in Tehran Province, and all passengers on board, who were mostly Iranian, were killed.

Morgan Ortagus, spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said on Friday, Farvardin 29, marking the hundredth day since the commercial airliner crashed 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