PARIS: Due to his anti-government remarks made during the 2022 riots, the uncle of Mahsa Amini, the young Iranian-Kurdish lady whose death in detention ignited months of rallies, received a jail sentence of more than five years, according to rights groups on Tuesday.
The Revolutionary Court in the Revolutionary family’s village of Saqez, northwest Iran, sentenced 30-year-old Safa Aeli to five years and four months in prison, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) of the United States and the Hengaw organization of Norway.
Hengaw added that he was also subjected to sanctions, which included the extremely unusual requirement that he create a written biography of a security force member slain during the protests and then provide the judicial authorities with his “own personal interpretation” of the document once it was completed.
Family attorney Saleh Nikbakht was cited by HRANA as saying that Aeli would spend a total of three years and a half in jail with a portion of his sentence suspended.
Participating in demonstrations that breached internal security, disseminating disinformation against the government, and demeaning the head of state Ayatollah Khamenei are among the accusations leveled against him.
SOURCE: DAWN NEWS
