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Iran-HRM – Iranian judicial authorities have charged political prisoner Soheil Arabi with new charges, extending his jail sentence.
The Branch 26 of Revolutionary Court headed by judge Ahmadzadeh, sentenced Soheil Arabi to additional three years behind bars, exile and forced stay in Borazjan for communicating with foreign media, sending statement from prison and encouraging people in December 2017 to stage protests.
Soheil Arabi serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence since 2013 for criticizing the Iranian regime on Facebook, was slapped with additional six years in July 2018, after being convicted of fabricate charges. He was sentenced to five years behind bars for “insulting the sanctuaries” and another year for “propaganda against the state.”
Judge Mohammad Moghiseh of Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court prosecuted the political prisoner, on June 10, 2018. The charges brought against him include “issuing statements”, “communicating with foreign media and organizations”, “insulting the supreme leader Ali Khamenei”.
Soheil Arabi as arrested by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in 2013, for publishing photos of the 2009 uprising, cartoons of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and articles about the Iranian Regime. He was tortured in the prison’s solitary confinement ward.
In 2014, he was sentenced to death by a court in Tehran on charges of insulting the sanctities and the Muslim’s prophet via Facebook. Then, after an international outcry, Iran’s Supreme Court commuted his sentence to 7.5 years in prison and an additional three years in prison and 30 lashes for insulting regime leaders.
