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Iranwire – Agents from the Islamic Republic’s Intelligence Ministry in Saqqez have arrested Safa Aeili, the uncle of Mahsa Amini and immediately transferred him to prison to begin serving a sentence.
He had received no formal notice or court summons prior to his arrest, a source close to the family said.
According to reports, intelligence agents stopped Aeili’s car while he was with his wife and arrested him on the spot.
The 31-year-old later informed his family by phone that he had been taken to Saqqez Central Prison to begin serving his sentence, the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported.
Aeili had previously been sentenced to 10 months in prison by the Saqqez Revolutionary Court after returning to Iran from Germany, where he had sought asylum last summer.
Branch 16 of the Kurdistan Province Appeals Court upheld the sentence without changes.
He was originally arrested on September 5, 2023, by intelligence forces in Saqqez and released on October 17, 2023, after posting bail of 1.2 billion tomans pending trial.
In February 2024, Branch 1 of the Saqqez Revolutionary Court sentenced Aeili to a total of 5 years, 4 months, and 17 days in prison on charges including “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the regime,” and “insulting Ali Khamenei.”
