A Sabzevari student was sentenced to prison and flogging.
Mojtaba Dadashi, a final-semester student at Hakim Sabzevari University, was sentenced to prison and flogging.
Yesterday, this student from Sabzevar announced in a video on his Twitter account that he had been sentenced to three years in prison and 74 lashes.
In part of the video, Mr. Dadshi says: "I was tried on irrelevant charges of "propaganda against the system, insulting the leadership, and insulting the heads of the branches" for criticizing the reformist and fundamentalist officials of the regime and the leader himself, and now they have sentenced me to three years in prison and 74 lashes in the most cruel way possible."
According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Mojtaba Dadashi was arrested in Bahman last month after appearing at Branch 3 of the Sabzevar Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office and transferred to the prison in the city. This final-semester political science student at Hakim Sabzevari University was temporarily released from the Sabzevar prison three days after his arrest, after posting a bail of 200 million Tomans, pending the completion of the proceedings.
These sentences are being issued to critics of the Islamic Republic's leader, even though Ayatollah Khamenei, in his speech in the city of Mashhad at the beginning of 2018, had said that in Iran, "there is freedom of expression and people are free to express different opinions."
Source: Voice of America
