The Guardian says the girl sentenced to ten years in prison in Iran is "Aras Amiri"
A few hours after the Islamic Republic announced the issuance of a ten-year prison sentence to a young woman, the Guardian website wrote that this person is Aras Amiri, a 33-year-old student who was arrested by the Islamic Republic last year.
A few hours after the Islamic Republic announced the issuance of a ten-year prison sentence to a young woman, the Guardian website wrote that this person is Aras Amiri, a 33-year-old student who was arrested by the Islamic Republic last year.
On Monday, May 13, Gholamhossein Esmaili, a spokesman for the judiciary, said, without naming Ms. Amiri, that the person who was "responsible for the Iran desk at the British Cultural Council," known as the "British Council," has been sentenced to ten years in prison.
Not many details about the girl's arrest have been released, but Iranian judicial officials have revealed that she was arrested more than a year ago and has now been sentenced to ten years. No information has been released about her trial or whether she has access to a lawyer.
Aras Amiri, a 33-year-old student who had traveled to Iran many times before, was arrested five days later by Ministry of Intelligence agents in March 2017 when he last traveled to Iran to visit his ailing grandmother.
Shortly after, this Iranian student at Kingston University in the UK, who was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and transferred to Evin Prison, was released from prison in 2018 after posting a bail of 500 million Tomans.
But then he was arrested again in September of last year, and no news has been released about him so far.
Mohsen Omrani, Aras Amiri's cousin, stated at the time of his first arrest that "Aras was simultaneously working at the British Council due to his field of study."
In recent years, several Iranians living in the UK have been arrested after traveling to Iran, including Nazanin Zaghari, who was arrested by IRGC agents along with her young daughter at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport about three years ago while returning to London and sentenced to five years in prison by a court.
Western analysts say the Islamic Republic uses dual nationals as hostages to extract money and privileges from Western governments.
In his latest report, published about 9 months ago, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran expressed concern about the imprisonment of dual nationals in Iran, saying that these arrests are a cause for deep concern and a clear example of the failure to follow legal procedures in Iran.
Source: Voice of America
