November 2019 Protests: Fatema Khosh Ro Sentenced to One Year Imprisonment
Fatema Khosh Ro, a resident of Khorramabad and one of the detainees from the nationwide November 2019 protests, has been sentenced in absentia to one year of imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of the city. The sentence was notified to her on November 1st, on the eve of the first anniversary of these protests.
According to Hrana news agency, the news organ of the Iranian Human Rights Activists’ Network, Fatema Khosh Ro, a resident of Khorramabad and one of those detained during the nationwide November 2019 protests, was sentenced in absentia to imprisonment by the city’s Revolutionary Court.
Based on this ruling, which was issued on October 5, 2020 by Branch 1 of the Khorramabad Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Hassan Karampouri, and was electronically notified to her on November 1, 2020, Fatema Khosh Ro was tried on the charges of “leading disturbers of public order through participation in illegal gatherings dated August 15, 2019” and “cooperation with hostile and opposing groups to the system through preparing and sending videos of the aforementioned illegal riots to some of their agents in Turkey” and was sentenced to one year of imprisonment.
Ms. Khosh Ro was previously arrested on November 16, 2019, along with approximately 69 other citizens in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019 in Khorramabad. After being held for one week at the detention facility of this institution, she was transferred to the women’s ward of Khorramabad Prison and after 18 days to the Intelligence Ministry’s detention facility known as Ward 2-A of Evin Prison. Fatema Khosh Ro was eventually transferred to Khorramabad Prison after 34 days and was temporarily released 10 days later after posting a 100 million tomans bail bond until the end of legal proceedings.
It is reported that this citizen was beaten during her detention at the Intelligence Ministry’s detention facility and was pressured to make televised confessions.
Fatema Khosh Ro, daughter of Gholam Abbas, born in 1988, is a resident of Khorramabad.
Hrana also reported on November 1 of this year that 109 years of imprisonment and 2,590 lashes were handed down to 36 detainees from the November protests in Behbahan.
November protests refer to a series of nationwide protests that began on Friday, November 15, 2019, following the announcement of an unprecedented increase in gasoline prices in dozens of Iranian cities with an unprecedented presence of protesters in the streets and continued for several days. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the representative of Karaj’s people in the parliament, stated that these protests occurred at 719 locations across the country. Seyyed Hossein Naqavi Hosseini, spokesman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at the time, reported the number of those arrested in the recent protests as approximately 7,000 people. According to reports from human rights organizations, hundreds were also killed in the aftermath of these bloody protests.
Source: Hrana
