Revolutionary Court verdicts: A bookseller and two student activists were sentenced to more than 7 years in prison
Student activist Yashar Tohidi announced on Twitter that he, Mohammad Irannejad, a bookseller living in Tehran, and Sara Askari, a student at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Tehran, were sentenced to prison in a joint case.
Yashar Tohidi, a student activist living in Tehran, announced the news in a tweet on Wednesday, February 26, saying that he, as the second defendant in the case, and Mohammad Irannejad, as the first defendant in the case, have each been sentenced to 3 years and 5 months in prison by the Revolutionary Court on charges of "acting against national security through membership in left-wing Marxist groups" and "propaganda against the system."
Mr. Tohidi continued this series of tweets by adding that Sara Asgari has also been sentenced to 6 months in prison and a fine of 7 million Tomans on charges of "spreading lies," which has been suspended for 5 years.
Mohammad Irannejad, a bookseller living in Tehran, also confirmed the news on his Twitter account, writing that the sentence was issued by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court and that only 2 years and 9 months of this sentence will be enforceable on charges of acting against national security through membership in left-wing Marxist groups.
