Mahsa Amini’s uncle sentenced to five years in jail
An Iranian court sentenced the uncle of the young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini who was killed by the Iranian morality police in mid-September 2022, to more than five years in prison.
"Safa Aeli, 30, was sentenced to five years and four months in prison by the revolutionary court in the family’s home town of Saqez in north-western Iran, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said.
In addition, he was punished with sanctions including a highly unusual demand to produce a written document outlining the biography of a member of the security forces killed in the protests and then submit his “own personal interpretation” of the finished document to the judicial authorities, Hengaw said according to Al sharq Al-Awsat newspaper. He was then ordered to post a voice message about the work on his social media accounts.
Quoting family lawyer Saleh Nikbakht, HRANA said that part of Aeli’s sentence was suspended and Aeli would have to serve three years and six months in prison.
"The charges against him include taking part in protests that violated internal security, dissemination of anti-government propaganda, and insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei" Agence France-Presse reported.
Aeli was released on bail a month after his arrest in September 2023, shortly before the one-year anniversary of the death of Amini.
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