The clerical dictatorship has also sentenced a number of people and political activists arrested during the 2009 uprising to long-term prison sentences.
One of them, Ehsan Abdeh-Tabrizi, a PhD student from Britain’s Durham University, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for “insulting” the mullahs’ Supreme Leader.
The Iranian regime has also sentenced a workers’ rights activist, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, to 20 years in prison on charges of “acting against national security.”
A female political prisoner has also been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Qadrieh Qaderi was arrested last summer by the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).