The fired journalist Mohammad Mosaed is sentenced to prison as well as being banned from journalism
4-September-2020
Category: Freedom of Expression، Labor and guilds، Prisoners
Breathing in Confinement: Mohammad Mosaed, a fired journalist, was sentenced to prison plus being banned from journalism by the Revolutionary Court.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Mohammad Mosaed who had been arrested after protesting against the Internet shutdown during the November protests in Iran, Twitter on Wednesday, September 2, that he had been sentenced to 4 years and 9 months in prison as well as two years of ban from journalism by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, while his communication equipment also was confiscated.
If his sentence is upheld in the Court of Appeals, based on the aggregation of sentences as per Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, a sentence of 4 years of imprisonment, as the most severe punishment will be applicable for him.
According to Mohammad Mosaed, the judge has called this journalist’s media activities as: “denigration of the country “, “crisis-making”, “inciting the empty-minded audience” as well as “deconstruction”. And the verdict has been issued accordingly.
Mohammad Masaed was one of the journalists who protested against the internet shutdown during the November 2019 protests in Iran. He wrote: “In the absence of the internet, metropolises have been turned into thousands of small, densely populated villages. When the communications are shut down, your horizon becomes as short as a few meters and it no longer matters how many kilometers or how many thousands of kilometers you are away. “Congratulate to the young minister’s sycophant hyenas who are equipped with the Internet.”