Student activist Samaneh Asghari has been sentenced to one year in prison.
Branch 29 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court handed down the sentence for student activist Samaneh Asghari, her husband, Esmail Nazari reported on December 16, 2023.
Security forces arrested Ms. Asghari at her residence in Tehran on September 14, 2023, and took her away to Evin Prison. She was temporarily released on bail from Qarchak Prison on October 4, 2023.
Samaneh Asghari is a student of Industrial Engineering at Kharazmi University in Tehran and a women’s and children’s rights activist. She was arrested last October during the 2022 protest.
The 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran has sentenced her to 18 years and three months of jail time, but she was released in April from Qarchak Prison based on the so-called general amnesty granted to prisoners by Ali Khamenei.