Mohammad Nourizad was sentenced to two years in prison.

Mohammad Nourizad, imprisoned in Evin Prison, was sentenced to another two years of penal servitude.

According to the Human Rights Organization in Iran, the aforementioned verdict was issued on Monday by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Mohammad Reza Amozad Mehdariji.

Mohammad Nourizad is an Iranian government dissident who was arrested in late August 2019 during a protest rally in Mashhad and sentenced to ten years in prison in a case filed against him. He is currently serving his sentence in Evin Prison. Other cases have also been reopened against him in recent years.

Now, in addition to serving 10 years in prison, Mohammad Nourizad has been sentenced to two more years of penal servitude. According to an informed source, in a verdict served on Mr. Nourizad by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court on Monday, July 3, he was acquitted of the charge of “gathering and colluding with the intention of disrupting the security of the country,” but was sentenced to one year of penal servitude on the charge of propaganda against the regime, and to one year of penal servitude on the charge of destroying prison property by breaking windows, for a total of two years of penal servitude.