Massoumeh Dehghan, wife of Abdolafattah Sultani, sentenced to one year in prison

Wife of imprisoned lawyer and member of Defenders of Human Rights Center sentenced to one year in prison and banned from leaving Iran.

Massoumeh Dehghan, wife of Abdolafattah Sultani, an imprisoned lawyer and member of the Center of Human Rights Defenders was sentenced to one year in prison and a five-year ban on leaving Iran. Abdolafattah Sultani won the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award in 2009. She traveled to Germany to accept the award on behalf of her husband, who was prohibited from leaving Iran at the time.

Source: Iran Daily Brief

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