To serve his sentence, Amir Mohammad Sharifi transferred to Evin Prison
31-May-2021
Category: Uncategorized
29-May-2021
Newsgroup: Prisoners –
Breathing in Confinement: On Tuesday, May 25, Amir Mohammad Sharifi, a student at the University of Tehran, was transferred to Evin Prison to serve his sentence. Mr. Sharifi along with his friend, Seyed Mostafa Hashemizadeh, had been summoned on May 15, to serve their prison sentences.
According to Breathing in Confinement, the news organ of the Prisoners’ Rights League in Iran, on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, Amir Mohammad Sharifi, one of the students of the University of Tehran, was transferred to Evin Prison to serve his three-month prison sentence.
In May 2020, Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Seyed Mostafa Hashemizadeh to five years in prison as well as 74 lashes, and Amir Mohammad Sharifi to three months in prison.
These two students of the University of Tehran had been summoned to the Sentence Implementation Branch of the Evin Court on May 15, 2021, to serve their sentences.
It should be noted that Amir Mohammad Sharifi had been arrested by security forces on February 9, 2020, and on February 16, was released on bail.
Mr. Sharifi’s trial was held on April 21, 2020, in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, who sentenced this student to three months in prison on charges of “propaganda activities against the regime.” Taking photos of the plain clothes agents (from behind) who entered the dormitory and posting them on Twitter was considered as evidence for “propaganda activity against the regime. ”
Seyed Mostafa Hashemizadeh also was sentenced by Tehran Revolutionary Court in May 2020 to five years in prison, 74 lashes, three months of unpaid work in field of education, and a two-year ban from entering the dormitory.