10 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Iranian Justice has sentenced the daughter of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to five years in prison, arrested for her alleged involvement in the protests unleashed after the death in custody of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
Faezé Hashemi was arrested in September, accused of “inciting the riots” days after the start of the mobilizations for the death of Amini, who had been arrested for wearing the veil incorrectly and therefore not complying with the Islamic dress code.
The defendant, a former lawyer and journalist, also has “other cases” pending in the courts, according to what her lawyer explained to the semi-official Mehr news agency. Hashemi had already been detained on other occasions for her activism, recalls the Bloomberg agency.
The lawyer, Neda Shams, has clarified on her Twitter account that the sentence is not final and that an appeal is possible.
Hashemi is the daughter of former President Rafsanjani, one of the leaders of the 1979 Islamic Revolution along with Ayatollah Ruholá Khomeini. She later became the ‘de facto’ head of the Army during the war against Iraq (1980-88) and held the post of president between 1989 and 1997.
