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The spokesperson of the Iranian judiciary reported a concerning trend in the first four months of the Persian year (March 21 to July 22). During this period, a total of 2,251 cases were filed against women removing their headscarfs. Out of these cases, 825 resulted in convictions, according to Massoud Setayeshi, who responded to the state-run Fars news agency. Setayeshi explained the consequences of such actions based on Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code. He stated that those who remove their headscarves would be directly taken to court.
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The spokesman of the Iranian Judiciary, Massoud Setayeshi, told reporters August 1, that: “The accusation of two journalists, Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, has nothing to do with the report on the death of Ms. Mahsa Amini and their journalistic career. The two defendants had cooperated with the US hostile government at times.” Niloufar Hamedi, a photojournalist for Shargh newspaper, took and published the first photo of Mahsa Amini in a coma at the hospital. Elaheh Mohammadi, a journalist for Ham-Mihan newspaper, published a report on Mahsa’s funeral and an interview with her father. https://tinyurl.com/cckmvjvr******
Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced two journalists to 8 years and six months in prison. Saeedeh Shafiei and Nasim Sultan Beigi were each sentenced to 8 months in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the state” and three years and seven months in prison on the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security.” Saeedeh Shafiei, a writer and independent journalist, was arrested on January 22, 2023, by security forces at her home in Tehran. She was temporarily released on bail of 500 million tomans until the end of her trial on February 7, 2023. Mehrnoush Zarei Hanzaki, a social journalist for various news agencies, was arrested by security forces in Tehran on January 22, 2023, and transferred to the IRGC Intelligence’s detention center in Evin Prison, Ward 2A. She was temporarily released on bail from Evin prison on February 14, 2023. https://tinyurl.com/5xfdfna3
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The 24th branch of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced Azar Karvandi Musazadeh, 60, to five years in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “assembly and collusion aimed against national security” through collaboration with People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The trial was held on January 6, 2022. Azar Karvandi is a former political prisoner of the 1980s who spent many years in the clerical regime’s dungeons. Her husband was executed during the 1988 massacre. Ms. Karvandi Musazadeh was also arrested in the 2010 and spent a few years in jail. https://tinyurl.com/55e8b55k
