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Iranian human rights activist Kouhyar Goudarzi has been sentenced to five years in prison.
According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, Goudarzi was informed of the Revolutionary Court’s decision last Wednesday. The verdict means that he is to serve a five-year prison sentence and exile in the Sistan and Baluchestan Province.
Presiding Judge Pirabbasi had previously told Goudarzi’s lawyer that he would be facing a six-year jail term rather than five years.
Goudarzi was arrested in Tehran in July 2011 and spent more than two months in solitary confinement. For the first three months, he was denied visitation and phone calls. He is currently being held in ward 209 of the notorious Evin prison.
The activist was previously arrested in the aftermath of Iran’s widely disputed 2009 presidential election. He is the recipient of the 2010 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award.
Goudarzi’s mother, Parvin Mokhtare, was arrested a day after her son’s detention last July and is currently being incarcerated in Kerman’s city prison. An appeals court recently commuted her 23-month prison sentence to a suspended term. She must also pay a fine of 50,400,000 Iranian Rials ($ 4,400).
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