Breathing in Confinement

Saeed Soltani receives a sentence of 2 years in prison

18-December-2021

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17-December-2021
Newsgroup: Prisoners – Repression –
Breathing in Confinement: Saeed Soltani, a civil activist living in Jolfa, was sentenced to two years in prison.

According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court of Tabriz, headed by Judge Fatahnejad, sentenced Saeed Soltani to two years in prison.

 

Saeed Soltani, along with Babak Kiomarsi,  residents of Jolfa, had been arrested by security agents on October 4, 2020, at their workplace. Concurrently with their arrest, the intelligence agents searched their homes and took their mobile phones, laptops and other personal belongings.

On December 3, 2020, after spending one month in detention, while there was no information about their condition, each of them was temporarily released from Tabriz Central Prison on 500 million Tomans bail awaiting the court’s decision.