It appears that Iran has a big problem with their people using Facebook. Maybe they are afraid that the Facebook friends in the free world will tell them how they enjoy freedom, and the Iranians will tell how repressed they are.
Final Verdict: Five to Seven Years for Facebook Users in Iran
FRIDAY, 01 MAY 2015
An appeals court in Tehran has sentenced six individuals to prison terms ranging from five to seven years for postings on their Facebook pages. Two additional individuals are facing as of yet unknown terms for their activities on the social networking site.
Mohabat News _ These are the final verdicts for a group of eight Facebook users arrested in 2014, and represent a reduction from sentences that originally ranged as high as 20 years for their posting of peaceful online content. The sentences indicate a continuation of an assault on freedom of speech in Iran that has increasingly focused on social media.
A source familiar with the case informed the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran of these sentences, and said that the court's ruling, which was served to six of the suspects' lawyers last week, indicated that they were given maximum sentence according to the New Islamic Penal Code.
"It is still not clear which charges the Appeals Court Judge has used for the five individuals' seven-year sentences. They were all charged with "assembly and collusion against national security" and "insulting the sacred," and the maximum penalty for each is seven years in prison," said the source.
Massoud Seyed Talebi, Farid Akramipour, Fariborz Kardar Fard, Massoud Ghasemkhani, and Amir Golestani were each sentenced to seven years, and Mehdi Reyshahri was sentenced to five years in prison. Regarding the two other individuals, both female, whose final ruling is unknown, Roya Saberi Nobakht is being held inside Gharchak Prison in Varamin, and the other, who has two young children, was released on bail upon completion of interrogations in 2014.
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Final Verdict Five to Seven Years for Facebook Users in Iran
Final Verdict: Five to Seven Years for Facebook Users in Iran
FRIDAY, 01 MAY 2015
An appeals court in Tehran has sentenced six individuals to prison terms ranging from five to seven years for postings on their Facebook pages. Two additional individuals are facing as of yet unknown terms for their activities on the social networking site.
Mohabat News _ These are the final verdicts for a group of eight Facebook users arrested in 2014, and represent a reduction from sentences that originally ranged as high as 20 years for their posting of peaceful online content. The sentences indicate a continuation of an assault on freedom of speech in Iran that has increasingly focused on social media.
A source familiar with the case informed the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran of these sentences, and said that the court's ruling, which was served to six of the suspects' lawyers last week, indicated that they were given maximum sentence according to the New Islamic Penal Code.
"It is still not clear which charges the Appeals Court Judge has used for the five individuals' seven-year sentences. They were all charged with "assembly and collusion against national security" and "insulting the sacred," and the maximum penalty for each is seven years in prison," said the source.
Massoud Seyed Talebi, Farid Akramipour, Fariborz Kardar Fard, Massoud Ghasemkhani, and Amir Golestani were each sentenced to seven years, and Mehdi Reyshahri was sentenced to five years in prison. Regarding the two other individuals, both female, whose final ruling is unknown, Roya Saberi Nobakht is being held inside Gharchak Prison in Varamin, and the other, who has two young children, was released on bail upon completion of interrogations in 2014.
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Final Verdict Five to Seven Years for Facebook Users in Iran
