Iran jails Mahsa Amini uncle for over five years: rights groups

Source: Agence France-Presse

Iran jails Mahsa Amini uncle for over five years: rights groups

Issued on: 13/02/2024 - 15:03
Modified: 13/02/2024 - 15:02
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Paris (AFP) – Iranian authorities have handed down a jail sentence of over five years to the uncle of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian-Kurdish woman whose custody death sparked months of protests, over his anti-government views expressed during the 2022 demonstrations, rights groups said on Tuesday.

Safa Aeli, 30, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison by the Revolutionary Court in the family's hometown of Saqez in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Hengaw group and US-based Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.

In addition, he was punished with sanctions including a highly unusual demand to produce a written document outlining the biography of a member of the security forces killed in the protests and then submit his "own personal interpretation" of the finished document to the judicial authorities, Hengaw said.

He was then ordered to post a voice message about the work on his social media accounts and otherwise banned from expressing any views about the protests.

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