The daughter of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison. His name is Fazeh Hashemi. This information was given by his lawyer on Tuesday (January 10). News NDTV.
The lawyer did not give details of the charges against Fajeh Hashemi. But according to information from the ISNA news agency, Tehran’s public prosecutor Hashemi was charged last year with propaganda against the country’s customs.
In September, the country’s media reported that Asha Amini, a Kurdish girl, died in police custody in Iran. Anti-government protests have been going on in Iran for nearly four months over his death. He was arrested for ‘inciting riots’.
The protests are being considered one of the biggest challenges to the regime in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
The country’s defense lawyer, Neda Shams, wrote on her Twitter account, “After Fazeh Hashemi’s arrest, he has been sentenced to five years in prison but the sentence has not yet been finalised.”
Earlier, Fajeh Hashemi was jailed in 2012 for ‘anti-state propaganda’ during the disputed 2009 presidential election. He was also banned from political activities.
The country’s former president Rafsanjani’s pragmatic policies of economic liberalization and better relations with the West attracted critics. He was one of the founders of the Islamic Republic.
