A court docket in Iran has sentenced the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to a further yr in jail, her lawyer says.
The 52-year-old human rights activist was convicted of spreading “propaganda in opposition to the system” by a department of Tehran’s Revolutionary Courtroom, Mostafa Nili wrote on X, previously Twitter.
He stated the explanations cited by the court docket included “feedback about Ms Dina Qalibaf”, a scholar who alleged she was tortured and sexually assaulted by safety forces, in addition to her name to boycott March’s election and letters to Swedish and Norwegian MPs.
Ms Mohammadi had refused to attend the trial, denouncing it as “unjust and farcical”.
There was no fast affirmation from the Iranian judiciary.
Narges Mohammadi’s family said in a statement that she had now undergone six trials over the past three years and been convicted four times for “protesting, exposing, and narrating sexual harassment and abuse by authorities officers”.
This had resulted in a “cumulative sentence of 13 years and three months in jail, 154 lashes, exile, and 4 months of avenue cleansing”, they added.
Ms Mohammadi was already serving a 10-year sentence at Tehran’s Evin jail, handed down in 2016, when she was awarded the Nobel prize last October for “her fight against the oppression of women in Iran”.
Final month, she had demanded that her newest trial be held in public in order that witnesses and survivors might testify to what she alleged have been “the sexual assaults perpetrated by the Islamic Republic regime in opposition to girls”.
She stated the propaganda cost was a results of a press release she had made in assist of Dina Qalibaf, a scholar at Tehran’s Beheshti College and a contract journalist.
In April, as authorities intensified a crackdown on girls flouting Iran’s obligatory hijab legal guidelines within the wake of the 2022 nationwide protests, Ms Mohammadi had urged Iranians to stand against what she called the “war against women”.
In an audio recording launched by her household, she referred to as on girls to not keep silent about abuse by safety forces, however ship their tales of “arrest, rape, harassment, humiliation and beatings” to her Instagram account.
The attraction, she stated, was prompted by the “bruises and expertise of sexual abuse” she had noticed when Ms Qalibaf was dropped at the ladies’s ward of Evin jail.
Ms Qalibaf was arrested a day after she posted an account on social media alleging that she had been subjected to electrical shocks by safety forces and sexually assaulted by one officer at a Tehran metro station.
The judiciary-run Mizan information company rejected Ms Qalibaf’s claims on the time. She was launched on bail after two weeks in detention.
In December, a revolutionary court docket handed Ms Mohammadi a further 15-month jail time period after she was convicted in her absence of one other cost of “propaganda in opposition to the system”, her household stated.
She was additionally banished from Tehran for 2 years, and banned from travelling overseas, proudly owning a cell phone, or being a member of political and social teams for a similar interval.
