An Iranian traffic control employee has received a 10-year prison sentence for allegedly disabling security cameras during the 2022 nationwide protests.
Majid Khoshmanzar, 49, was arrested in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad in October that year, along with two other people, including his son Amir Reza.
His two co-accused were reportedly released after being granted amnesty.
Khoshmanzar is serving his sentence in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad prison.
On October 22, 2022, as thousands of Iranians took to the streets across Iran to mark the 40th day since Mahsa Amini died in police custody, Mashhad traffic cameras malfunctioned.
Authorities initially attributed the outage to a fire in the municipality's traffic control center.
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