Oct. 12 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The reformist politician and former advisor to the Iranian Presidency, Mostafa Tajzadeh, has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of sedition and security collusion, as well as allegedly spreading anti-state propaganda.
This has been reported by the politician’s lawyer in a statement on the social network Twitter, in which he has detailed that Tajzadeh must serve at least five of those eight years of sentence, also ensuring that the decision is final due to the lack of appeal of your client.
“According to the verdict, my client of Mustafa Tajzadeh has been sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of sedition and collusion against security, as well as spreading lies and propaganda against the regime (…) The sentence is executory, it is final and is being implemented due to the lack of an appeal from the client,” said the lawyer, Houshang Pourbabaee, in his message.
The eight-year prison sentence was announced just one day after Iran’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Gholam Hosein Mohseni Ejei called out critics and opponents of the dialogue as a reaction to widespread popular protests after his death. of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
This political activist is one of the biggest critics of the president of Iran, Ebrahim Raisi. In a letter written a few weeks ago and addressed to Iranian ruler Ali Khamenei, Tajzadehm described the actions of the country’s intelligence agents during his detention as “illegal”, as reported by Radio Farda, the Iranian branch of the Radio Free Europe streaming service. /Radio Liberty.
Specifically, the politician assured that “there is no more crime than criticism” in relation to him, assuring that his arrest is “a clear violation of the law.”
Tajzadeh was deputy interior minister under reformist Mohammad Khatami in the 2000s and has become a critic of hard-line policies in recent years.
He spent seven years in prison after months of nationwide protests over the results of the 2009 presidential election that reinstated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term.
In the last three years, Tajzadeh has become even more critical of hardliners and even Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.