November 2019 protests; Fatemeh Khoshrou sentenced to one year in prison
Fatemeh Khoshrou, a citizen of Khorramabad and one of the detainees of the nationwide protests of November 2019, was sentenced in absentia to 1 year in prison by the city's Revolutionary Court. The sentence was announced to her on November 2, on the eve of the first anniversary of the protests.
According to HRANA, the news agency of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, Fatemeh Khoshrou, a citizen of Khorramabad and one of the detainees of the nationwide protests of November 2019, was sentenced to prison in absentia by the city's Revolutionary Court.
Based on this verdict, which was issued on October 4, 2020 by Branch 1 of the Khorramabad Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Hassan Karampour, and notified to her electronically on November 2, 2020, Fatemeh Khoshrou was tried and sentenced to 1 year in prison on charges of "complicity in disrupting public order by participating in illegal gatherings on August 15, 2020" and "collaboration with hostile and anti-regime groups by preparing and sending videos of the aforementioned illegal disturbances to some of their agents in Turkey."
Ms. Khoshrou was previously arrested on November 15, 2019, along with about 69 other citizens in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019 in Khorramabad. After a week of detention in this institution's detention center, she was transferred to the women's ward of Khorramabad Prison, and after 18 days, she was transferred to the IRGC's intelligence detention center, known as Ward 2A of Evin Prison. Fatemeh Khoshrou was finally transferred to Khorramabad Prison after 34 days, and 10 days later, she was temporarily released after posting a 100 million Tomans bail, pending the completion of the trial.
It is said that this citizen was beaten during his detention in the IRGC Intelligence Detention Center and pressured to make a televised confession.
Fatemeh Khoshrou, the daughter of Gholam Abbas, was born in 1988 and is a citizen and resident of Khorramabad.
On November 2 of this year, HRANA reported in a report that 36 people arrested during the November protests in Behbahan were sentenced to 109 years in prison and 2,590 lashes.
The November protests are a series of nationwide protests that began on Friday, November 14, 2019, with the announcement of an unprecedented increase in gasoline prices in dozens of Iranian cities, with an unprecedented presence of protesters on the streets, and continued for several days. Mohammad Javad Kolivand, a representative of the people of Karaj in the parliament, said that these protests took place in 719 places in the country. Seyyed Hossein Naqvi Hosseini, the then spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the parliament, also announced the number of detainees in the recent protests at around 7,000. According to reports from human rights organizations, hundreds of people also died as a result of these bloody protests.
Source: HRANA
