Behnam Ebrahimzadeh Sentenced to Six Years in Prison and Confiscation of Three Books

Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist and member of the Society for the Protection of Children’s Rights, has been sentenced to a total of six years in prison, along with the confiscation and rewriting of three books, on charges of “membership in anti-system groups” and “propaganda against the system.”

A source close to Ebrahimzadeh’s family told Voice of America on Thursday, March 6: The court session was held on February 24 without the presence of a lawyer or a representative of the prosecutor in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari.

According to this informed source, the court’s ruling was delivered to Ebrahimzadeh in prison on March 3, and a period of 20 days from the date of the ruling was set for “appeal.”

This labor activist was temporarily released from Evin Prison on March 4 after posting bail of 200 million tomans.

Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, who was arrested on December 12 at his personal residence in Tehran, learned at the time of arrest that he had been sentenced in absentia on November 20 of the current year in Kermanshah to 18 months in prison.

Source: Voice of America