Death Sentence of Mahan Sadrat Changed to Imprisonment and Exile

The Judiciary announced the change of Mahan Sadrat’s death sentence to imprisonment and exile.

On Tuesday morning, Esfand 3rd, the news agency of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic announced the change of the death sentence of Mahan Sadrat, one of those detained during the nationwide protests of 1401, to imprisonment and exile, following news of the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlo.

Mahan Sadrat, born in 1378, was arrested in Tehran last year following nationwide protests and was charged with possessing a knife and assaulting an officer. He was accused of “waging war against the state,” “conspiracy and collusion against national security,” and “propaganda activities against the regime,” and was sentenced to death. He had repeatedly stated in court testimony that he did not possess any knife, but the judicial system condemned him to execution.

His case was handed over to the parallel court branch after accepting a request for retrial, and according to the new verdict, he was sentenced to a total of 16 years imprisonment and exile, with 10 years of his sentence to be served in exile in “Keliber” prison in East Azerbaijan. More than a year has passed since the nationwide protests, yet the Islamic Republic regime continues its crimes and executions of protesters. Protesters whose files are riddled with ambiguities and in most cases have been violated, but the judicial apparatus, ignoring file violations and existing ambiguities, has issued death sentences solely based on forced confessions extracted from the accused under torture and carried out the executions.