NCRI – A court in Iran has sentenced a student activist to 15 years imprisonment. His wife and two other activists received prison terms of one to six years.
Arash Sadeghi, his wife Golrokh Iriai (Ebrahimi), Behnam Mosivand and Navid Kamran were violently arrested in September 2014 by the intelligence organization of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Mr. Sadeghi’s mother suffered a heart attack at the time of his arrest and died a few days later.Arash Sadeghi, a student in Allameh University, has already spent seven months in solitary confinement.
His trial, held in Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court on February 20, was presided by the infamous Abolghassem Salavati who is regarded by human rights activists as a judge who flagrantly ignores basic trial principles in the cases that he oversees.
Mr. Sadeghi’s lawyer was not allowed to review his case and attend the court session. His wife, Mrs. Golrokh Iriai was not present at the session due to illness.
Abolghassem Salavati has handed down tough and inhumane punishments, including execution sentences, to many dissidents, journalists, lawyers and members of Iran’s ethnic minorities.
As the lead judge in charge of Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, he was called the “judge of death” and “the hanging judge” for imposing at least a half-dozen execution sentences following the nationwide anti-regime protests in 2009.
His record is considered so egregious internationally that the European Union included him on a 2011 blacklist of the officials of the Iranian regime who are responsible for gross human rights violations.
