Saba Kordafshahri’s 15-Year Prison Sentence Reduced to 7.5 Years by Appeals Court

Following a ruling by Tehran Province’s Appeals Court, the conviction sentence of Saba Kordafshahri, an activist in the “White Wednesdays” campaign, has been reduced from 15 years to 7 and a half years in prison.

Sogand Kordafshahri, the sister of the imprisoned activist, announced this news on Tuesday, March 10, on Twitter.

Saba Kordafshahri, an opponent of mandatory hijab, was previously sentenced to 24 years of punitive imprisonment by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, of which 15 years in prison was considered the most severe applicable penalty against her.

News agency Harana reported that according to a ruling by Branch 36 of Tehran Province’s Appeals Court, following the correction of “judicial violation that occurred during the legal proceedings which had resulted in increasing her applicable conviction sentence 2.5 times to 15 years in prison, and with the application of the penalty reduction law, 7 years and 6 months in prison will be applicable for her.”

Saba Kordafshahri, born in 1998, was one of the activists in the “White Wednesdays” campaign who was arrested in Tehran in June 2019.

After some time, Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court convicted this civil activist of “incitement to moral corruption” to 15 years in prison, of “assembly and conspiracy with intent to commit crimes against national security” to 7.5 years in prison, and of “propaganda activities against the system” to 1.5 years in prison.

On December 10, she was transferred from the women’s ward of Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin, and currently, without observing the principle of separation of crimes, she is serving her sentence in Ward 6 of Qarchak Prison in Varamin.

Rahele Ahmadi, Saba Kordafshahri’s mother, who supported her daughter’s activism, has also been sentenced to 31 months in prison.

Ms. Ahmadi was arrested in November 2019 to serve her conviction and was transferred to Evin Prison.

Source: Radio Farda