Iran upholds 16-year sentence for anti-death penalty campaigner Narges Mohammadi
An Iranian appeals court on Wednesday upheld a 16-year prison sentence for a prominent Iranian human rights advocate. Narges Mohammadi had been sentenced in May on charges of violating national security and acting against the Islamic regime through her support of an anti-death penalty campaign./ As vice president of the Center for Human Rights Defenders in Iran, Mohammadi for defending women who had acid thrown on them in the city of Esfahan, purportedly for dressing immodestly. While jailed this summer at Tehran’s Evin Prison, she staged a ...
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