Iran Jails Three Students For Insulting Islam
The three of them received 2-3 years in prison. More than likely, Evin Prison, shown above.
Amir Kabir University has long been a hotbed of student activism, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the target of heckling in a stormy address to the university last year.
TEHRAN: Iran on Tuesday handed down jail sentences of at least two years each to three students imprisoned since May on charges of insulting Islam, the Mehr news agency reported.
The three students from Tehran’s Amir Kabir University - Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghassaban - were among eight arrested on suspicion of publishing anti-Islamic images in four student reformist newspapers.
“The verdicts for the accused Amir Kabir students were issued today,” their lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said, according to the Mehr news agency.
“Ehsan Mansouri has been sentenced to two years in prison, Majid Tavakoli to three years and Ahmad Ghassaban to two-and-a-half years,” he said.
Dadkhah vowed to appeal against the verdicts.
In August, Mansouri’s mother publicly accused the authorities of torturing the young men at Tehran’s Evin prison in an effort to obtain confessions.
Amir Kabir University has long been a hotbed of student activism, and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the target of heckling in a stormy address to the university last year.
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