1.5 Years in Prison, Travel Ban and Deprivation; Sentence of a Young Woman for Participating in Student Ceremony
According to reports published on Monday, July 2, Farshte Toosi, a student activist and graduate student at Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison.
According to the ruling issued by Judge Selavati, Ms. Toosi has also been sentenced to “two years of deprivation from participation in political parties and organizations, social networks, media and press, and a travel ban.”
قاضی صلواتی #فرشته_طوسی فعال دانشجویی موثر و پویای دهه نود را به «۱/۵سال حبس تعزیری و ۲سال محرومیت از حضور در احزاب، شبکههای اجتماعی، رسانهها و مطبوعات و ممنوعالخروجی»محکوم کرده؛ چرا؟بدلیل شرکت در برنامه ۱۶آذر در دانشگاه.باز هم ۱۶آذر..بازهم دانشگاه..که آخرین سنگر آزادی است pic.twitter.com/vQd5mJKYzv
— علی ملیحی (@alimalihi) July 2, 2018
The sentence is said to have been issued following the arrest of Farshte Toosi for participating in the December 16 ceremony in 2016 and on charges of propaganda against the system.
After her participation in that ceremony, this student activist was detained by the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Organization for 8 days.
The issuance of this prison sentence for the student activist comes at a time when heavy sentences for detained students who protested during December of last year have also made headlines and sparked protests.
Students from Tehran and Allameh Tabataba’i universities protested against the sentences of 5 to 8 years in prison for these students, but the Tehran prosecutor did not accept the protests and attributed some of the detained students to specific political factions.
Some members of parliament have also criticized the government for detaining students based on reports from the Ministry of Intelligence, and the Ministry of Science has not taken any particular action to clear them of charges.
Source: Voice of America
