An economic journalist was sentenced to more than three years in prison by the Islamic Republic.
Amir Abbas Azarmvand, who was an economic reporter for some media outlets inside Iran, was sentenced to a minimum of three years and seven years in prison by the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
His Twitter account, FreeAmirabbasA, wrote on Wednesday that the Iranian judiciary sentenced Amir Abbas Azarmvand, an economic journalist and labor activist, to three years and seven months in prison on charges of gathering and collusion, eight months in prison for propaganda activities against the regime, as well as a two-year ban on participation in political and social groups and leaving the country.
Judge Afshari issued this ruling in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran. While the Constitution of the Islamic Republic emphasizes holding public trials with a jury for reporters and journalists, the Islamic Republic convicts media activists under the pretext of security crimes in the Revolutionary Court, with minimal rights for the defendants.
Mr. Azarmvand has worked in media outlets such as Khabar Online, Etemad, Tasal, and Samat newspapers.
Amir Abbas Azarmvand had been arrested several times before. He was arrested at his parents' home last September but was later temporarily released from Evin Prison on bail of 500 million.
In January of last year, this journalist was arrested on the sidelines of a rally in support of workers at the Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agricultural and Industrial Complex in front of the Ministry of Justice building in Tehran and released an hour later.
Source: Voice of America
