Another Detainee of the January 2019 Protests Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison and Flogging
Seyed Mostafa Hashemizadeh, a civil engineering student at the University of Tehran who was arrested during the January 2019 protests, was sentenced to 6 years in prison and flogging by the Revolutionary Court.
Seyyed Mostafa Hashemizadeh has announced on Twitter in recent days that he has been sentenced to 6 years in prison and 74 lashes by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of "gathering and colluding against national security" and "disturbing public order and peace" for participating in a student rally in January 2019 on the campus of Tehran University to protest the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 by a missile attack by the Revolutionary Guards.
According to this Tehran University student, Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court has also issued him a two-year ban on entering the student dormitory and three months of free and public service at Tehran's Niayesh Psychiatric Hospital as additional punishment.
This is not the first time that the Islamic Republic has sentenced one of the detainees of the January 2019 protests to prison. Previously, the Voice of America had announced in a report that eleven citizens of Amol who were arrested during the January 2019 protests had been sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to a total of 88 months in prison.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, which was en route from Tehran to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev on January 8, 2020 with 176 passengers, crashed minutes after taking off due to a missile attack by the Revolutionary Guard near the new city of Parand in Tehran province, killing all of its passengers, who were mostly Iranians.
On Friday, April 10, the 100th day since the crash of the passenger plane in Iran, US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus said in a Twitter message: "100 days ago, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targeted and shot down Flight PS752, killing 176 passengers and crew."
Source: Voice of America
