Iran condemns daughter of former president to five years in prison
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Raven Ruma
- . January 10, 2023
- . Update: January 10, 2023 8:09 pm
According to her attorney, the outspoken daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been given a five-year prison sentence.
The lawyer omitted to mention the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. Hashemi was however accused of “propaganda against the system” by Tehran’s public prosecutor last year, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
According to official media accounts from September, she was seized in Tehran during protests after a young Kurdish woman passed away while in police custody. The reason for the arrest was “inciting unrest.”
The protests have posed one of the biggest threats to Iran’s clerical authorities since the 1979 revolution.
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According to defence attorney Neda Shams’ tweet, “Ms Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to five years in prison following her arrest, however, the sentence is not final.”
Faezeh Hashemi received a prison sentence and a lifetime ban from participating in politics in 2012 for “anti-state propaganda” stemming from the contested 2009 presidential election.
Throughout his life, the pragmatic policies of the late president Rafsanjani toward economic reform and improved ties with the West attracted both ardent fans and ardent detractors. He was one of the Islamic Republic’s founders.
