{"id":8923,"date":"2017-12-03T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/?p=8923"},"modified":"2017-12-03T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T21:15:51","slug":"iran-three-political-prisoners-sentenced-to-hefty-prison-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/2017\/12\/03\/iran-three-political-prisoners-sentenced-to-hefty-prison-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"#Iran: Three political prisoners sentenced to hefty prison terms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three former political prisoners, who were rearrested last year, have been sentenced to overall 28 years imprisonment by the Tehran Revolutionary Court.
\nMajid Asadi, Payam Shakiba and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi<\/a> They were charged with \u201cacting against national security by gathering and conspiring\u201d and \u201cspreading propaganda against the government.\u201d
\nMajid Asadi<\/a> was sentenced to 6 yearsbehind bars plus two years living in exile in city of Borazjan, in Bushehr province, south of Iran, while both Mohammad Amirkhizi and Payam Shakiba<\/a> were each sentenced to 11 years of prison.
\nMajid Asadi and Mohammad Amirkhizi were also sentenced to two years of forced residence in the towns of Borazjan in Bushehr Province and Nick Shahr in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, respectively.
\nPolitical activist Majid Asadi was arrested by agents of the regime\u2019s intelligence ministry on February 18. Assadi was kept in solitary confinement under severe duress for 50 days, and was incarcerated in Evin\u2019s wards 209 and 240 for months before being transferred to the Gohadasht prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. Incidentally, his transfer took place a short while before the foreign ambassadors\u2019 tour of Evin.
\nAssadi previously served another four-year prison term from 2011 to 2015 for attending a ceremony commemorating the victims of the 1999 student protests in Tehran.
\nThirty-year old former students\u2019 rights activist, Payam Shakiba was also arrested in 2009 for his role in disclosing sexual abuse of a female student by an official at Zanjan\u2019s university. He was finally sentenced to six years prison.
\nMohammad Amirkhizi, 63, was also arrested in 2009 charged with supporting of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). He was released in 2014, after spending five years behind bars.
\nEarlier, Amirkhizi\u2019s wife and his brothers were also imprisoned who were later released. The family was charged with meeting Amirkhizi\u2019s children in PMOI\u2019s camp Ashraf in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three former political prisoners, who were rearrested last year, have been sentenced to overall 28 years imprisonment by the Tehran Revolutionary Court. Majid Asadi, Payam […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,5],"tags":[83,335,334,333,336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8925,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8923\/revisions\/8925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irandemocratic.org\/public_html\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}