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Iranwire – A Revolutionary Court in Iran’s central Isfahan has sentenced Maryam Mehrabi, the sister of a political prisoner on death row, to six years in prison.
According to the Dadban legal group, the court tried Maryam Mehrabi without prior notice to her family.
She was accused of “inciting people to war and killing with the intention of disrupting public security” and “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
The trial was conducted without allowing Mehrabi the right to defense.
Maryam Mehrabi was detained on June 18 during a raid where authorities seized all electronic devices from her home.
Maryam, a mother of two young children, was arrested for writing about and raising awareness of her brother’s case.
Her brother Mahmoud Mehrabi, hailing from Mobarakeh city, has been held by the Revolutionary Guards since February 2023 on charges of “corruption on Earth” and currently faces execution.
Reports indicate that the harsh sentence may be linked to his online protest activities and revelations about official corruption.
In the lead-up to her arrest, Maryam had publicly protested her brother’s death sentence, vowing to set herself on fire outside a local mosque if the ruling was not overturned.
She was likely targeted for her outspoken online activism challenging the judicial process.
The arrests come amid the Islamic Republic’s intensified crackdown on dissent following months of anti-government protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022.
Thousands were detained, and several protesters received death sentences from revolutionary courts on charges such as “waging war against God.”
