Iranian Women Activists Handed Long-Term Sentences

An Iranian court has sentenced two Iranian women activists to six years in prison on charges related to their political activities, according to a U.S.-based human rights network.

HRANA said on January 16 that the Revolutionary Court in Karaj, near Tehran, also ordered Maryam Jalal Hosseini and Fatemeh (Mojgan) Tadrisi to spend two years in exile after their release.

It quoted the judge who presided over the court, Seyed Musa Asef-Al-Hosseini, as ruling that both women were guilty of “inciting people to violence, engaging in propaganda against the regime, insulting the supreme leader (Ali Khamenei), and forming groups to act against national security,” it said.

Hosseini and Tadrisi were arrested in August last year and transferred to Kachooie prison in Karaj, where they are still being held.

The two activists had previously been arrested due to their activism.