IRAN - Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani

IRAN - Iran sentences Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani to a five-year prison term

January 10, 2023:

Iran sentences former president’s daughter Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani sentenced to a five-year prison term.
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani (president from 1989 to 1997) has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said on Tuesday.
Faezeh Hashemi Bahramani, better known as Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani (born 1963) is an Iranian women's rights activist, politician and former journalist who served as a member of Iranian parliament from 1996 to 2000.
Rafsanjani was arrested again in late September 2022 during the Mahsa Amini protests
The lawyer did not give detail of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. But Tehran’s public prosecutor indicted Hashemi last year on charges of “propaganda against the system,” according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
State media in September reported she had been arrested for “inciting riots” in Tehran during protests triggered by the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody.
The demonstrations have posed one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution.
“Following the arrest of Ms. Faezeh Hashemi, she was sentenced to five years in prison but the sentence is not final,” defense lawyer Neda Shams wrote on her Twitter account. In 2012, Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for “anti state propaganda” dating back to the 2009 disputed presidential election. Her father died in 2017.
Former president Rafsanjani’s pragmatic policies of economic liberalization and better relations with the West attracted fierce supporters and equally fierce critics during his life. He was one of the founders of the Islamic Republic.

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