Another person arrested during the November 2019 protests was sentenced to prison
Abolfazl Nejadfateh, a student activist and one of the detainees of the November 2019 protests, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.
The Telegram channel of the country's student union councils announced on Sunday, April 7, that this student union activist, who had previously been arrested during the November protests, had been sentenced to a total of 6 years in prison by Branch 29 of the Revolutionary Court on charges of "assembly and collusion" and "propaganda against the system."
This sentence was issued to Abolfazl Nejadfath at a time when, according to Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, which stipulates the consolidating of sentences, if this sentence is confirmed by the Court of Appeal, it will be enforceable five years from now on the charge of "assembly and collusion."
According to available information, this student union activist was arrested by security forces on Thursday, November 20, and after some time, on Wednesday, December 17, 2019, he was temporarily released on bail of 200 million Tomans pending the completion of the case.
This is not the first time that the Islamic Republic has sentenced one of the detainees of the November 2019 protests to prison; previously, Voice of America reported that six citizens of Urmia, namely Keyvan Pashaei, Ali Azizi, Amin Zare, Salar Taher Afshar, Eliar Hosseinzadeh, and Yasin Hassanpour, all of whom were arrested during these protests, were sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to a total of 48 months in prison.
Protests over the increase in gasoline prices began on Friday, November 14, in various cities in Iran, including Mashhad, Khuzestan, Ahvaz, Khorramshahr, and Behbahan, and gradually spread to all regions of the country.
The United States says the Islamic Republic is spending its wealth, rather than the Iranian people, on supporting terrorist groups and destabilizing the Middle East. The United States has also repeatedly condemned the institutionalized financial corruption and looting of Iran's God-given assets by regime affiliates, calling them among the main causes of Iran's economic and financial problems.
Source: Voice of America
