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Iranwire – A Revolutionary Court in Mashhad has sentenced 12 lawyers to a combined total of 3 years in prison and issued fines.
Of the total prison time, 21 months have been suspended for a period of five years.
According to the HRANA human rights news agency, the court convicted the lawyers on charges of “propaganda against the Islamic Republic.”
Farzaneh Safari, Amin Shahla, and Mohammadreza Yazdani were each sentenced to one year in prison.
Half of Safari and Shahla’s sentences and three-quarters of Yazdani’s sentences have been suspended for five years.
The same court issued a non-prosecution order for another defendant in the case, Vajih Ghoreishi.
Two other lawyers, Ali Asghar Dashti and Seyyed Jafar Saghravanian, have been referred back to the prosecutor’s office for further investigation on separate charges, including “propaganda in favor of the Zionist regime,” “insulting the Supreme Leader,” and “spreading falsehoods.”
The group of lawyers had previously been prosecuted in 2022 on similar charges, including “propaganda,” but their case had initially been subject to a pardon directive.
