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Iranian Revolutionary Court Sentences Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi on Collusion, Propaganda Charges

Her lawyer says the verdict can be appealed, with a request for temporary release on medical grounds.

Overview

  • Mostafa Nili, her lawyer, reports a sentence of six years for association and collusion plus one and a half years for propaganda, a two-year travel ban, and two years of internal exile to the city of Josf.
  • Coverage differs on the effective prison term, with one report citing seven and a half years total while Iranian rules on concurrent sentences would make it six.
  • Nili says he received her first call in 59 days, during which she said she had been taken to a hospital three days earlier before the line cut off.
  • Her family says she was violently detained in mid-December during a funeral in Mashad, and the Mashad Revolutionary Court issued the new ruling after a hearing.
  • Details of the case were shared by Nili on X and to AFP, as the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate faces another prosecution following years of arrests over her rights advocacy.