Akbar Hashmi Rafsanjani passed away in 2017.
Dubai:
The activist daughter of Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison, her lawyer said Tuesday.
The lawyer did not provide details of the allegations against Faizeh Hashmi. But Tehran’s public prosecutor last year indicted Hashemi on charges of “propaganda against the system”, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.
State media reported in September that he had been arrested for “inciting riots” in Tehran in protest against the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody.
The demonstrations have presented one of the biggest challenges to Iran’s clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution.
Defense lawyer Neda Shams wrote on her Twitter account, “Ms. Faizeh Hashmi was sentenced to five years in prison following her arrest, but this sentence is not final.”
In 2012, Faizeh Hashmi was sentenced to prison and banned from political activities for “anti-state propaganda” in the run-up to the disputed 2009 presidential election.
Her father had died in 2017.
Former President Rafsanjani’s pragmatic policies of economic liberalization and improved relations with the West attracted fierce supporters and equally fierce critics during his life. He was one of the founders of the Islamic Republic.
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