Iran: Iran Sentences Men Who Supported Women’s Protests Against Compulsory Hijab to Six Years Prison

January 22, 2019

Reza Khandan and Farhad Meysami have both been sentenced to six years imprisonment in Iran and banned from leaving the country or engaging in online activities for two years for peacefully protesting the country’s compulsory hijab law.

“Iran wants to silence these men by jailing them for standing by women who want the hijab to be a choice, not a requirement,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).

“The only crime they committed is peacefully exercising their rights of freedom of speech and expression,” said Ghaemi. “Iran’s judiciary should heed their calls for a fair and public trial and release them.”

In an interview with CHRI, Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, said he was unlawfully denied a public trial.

On January 22, 2019, he and Meysami were both convicted of “assembly and collusion against national security” and “propaganda against the state” at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran presided by Judge Abolqasem Salavati—notorious in Iran for bending to the wishes of security agencies.

“The law says that political cases should be tried publicly in a criminal court in the presence of a jury,” said Khandan. “But for years the judiciary has turned political cases into national security ones in order to try them through the revolutionary court system.”

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#FreeNasrin

La prisonnière politique Nasrin Sotoudeh interdite de visite en prison en Iran https://t.co/26DpsSHGIB

— AM Bilodeau (@AnneBilodeau) January 21, 2019

Defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh continues to be denied family visits in #Iran’s #Evin Prison, where she has been held on trumped-up national security charges since June 2018. #HumanRights #IranUpdatehttps://t.co/MbaJL9ZnXm

— FDD's Iran Program (@FDD_Iran) January 21, 2019

イランの民主化運動をやっていたときに、人権派弁護士のNasrin Sotoudehがちょうど刑務所でハンストを始めて、ものすごく長引いたので（最終的に４週間続いた）その間は「もういいよ！食べて！」のような辛い気持ちでいた。その後もNasrinはやっぱり逮捕されて去年の８月もハンストしていたらしい。

— YukiYamaguchi(山口侑紀） (@yukiyamagu) January 22, 2019

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