Posted on 06/18/2024 11:35:46 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A court in Iran has sentenced the jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional year in prison, her lawyer says. The 52-year-old human rights activist was convicted of spreading “propaganda against the system” by a branch of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, Mostafa Nili wrote on X, formerly Twitter. He said the reasons cited by the court included “comments about Ms Dina Qalibaf”, a student who alleged she was tortured and sexually assaulted by security forces, as well as her call to boycott March’s election and letters to Swedish and Norwegian MPs. Ms Mohammadi had refused to attend the trial, denouncing it as “unjust and farcical”. There was no immediate confirmation from the Iranian judiciary.
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I’d kill for a peace prize.
Trump was nominated, fwiw.
“her call to boycott March’s election “
Questioning the legitimacy of an election?? The DNC-DOJ would have asked for 20 years in solitary.
Most likely, she’ll get exactly that. DNC-DOJ is playing catch-up.
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