Iran sentences female student activist to 6 years of prison

December 6, 2010

Judge Salavati who is the head of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court announced Nasim Soltan Bigi’s six year prison sentence to her lawyer on November 30.

This student activist who studied at the Alameh Tabatabayi University in Tehran had gone to the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court before this with her lawyer on August 22 and made her defense against the charges of propagating against the government and gathering and conspiring to disrupt national security.

She was sentenced to 3 years of prison for ‘acting against national security’ and one year of prison for ‘propagating against the government’. A 2 year suspended prison sentence that she received in 2006 was also added to her new sentence.

Soltan Bigi was arrested during a widespread arrest of student activists in 2007 and was detained in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for 56 days before being released n a 50 million toman (about 50,000 dollar) bail. She was also arrested in a Woman’s Day gathering in 2006 and was sentenced to a 2 year suspended prison term.

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