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An Iranian journalist has told VOA that authorities have given him an effective two-year prison sentence and other punishments for writing about a corruption case against a senior Iranian official’s relative, making him the latest journalist to face official retaliation for his work in the Islamic Republic.
In a Tuesday Skype video interview with VOA Persian from his home in Tehran, Fariborz Kalantari said he learned of the multiple punishments in a Feb. 4 visit to a criminal court in the Iranian capital. He said he went to the court a day after receiving a social media tip-off from a follower that authorities were planning to send him to prison.
Kalantari said he discovered while visiting the court that he had been convicted of several alleged crimes seven months earlier, related to his past reporting about the corruption case involving Mahdi Jahangiri, the brother of First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri.
That had to be a really strange conversation. So, ya, you were convicted back in July and now you are going to prison for a couple of years.
In a Tuesday Skype video interview with VOA Persian from his home in Tehran, Fariborz Kalantari said he learned of the multiple punishments in a Feb. 4 visit to a criminal court in the Iranian capital. He said he went to the court a day after receiving a social media tip-off from a follower that authorities were planning to send him to prison.
Kalantari said he discovered while visiting the court that he had been convicted of several alleged crimes seven months earlier, related to his past reporting about the corruption case involving Mahdi Jahangiri, the brother of First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri.
Iran Journalist Gets 2 Years in Prison for Writing about Vice President’s Brother’s Corruption Case
In a Tuesday interview with VOA Persian from his home in Tehran, Fariborz Kalantari said he learned of prison term and his other punishments in Feb. 4 visit to local criminal court
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That had to be a really strange conversation. So, ya, you were convicted back in July and now you are going to prison for a couple of years.