Five citizens, including Ali Vahabi (an Iran-Iraq war veteran), Mojdeh Bahrololum Tabatabai, and Mahsa Vahabi, were each sentenced to pay a fine of 6 million tomans by the Alborz Province Appeals Court.
The recent verdict by Branch 12 of the Alborz Appeals Court found these five citizens, three of whom are family members—Ali Vahabi (a war veteran), Mojdeh Bahrololum Tabatabai, and Mahsa Vahabi—guilty of “aiding and abetting in assembly and collusion against national security” through financial support for Mashallah Karami. They were each fined 6 million tomans.
These five people had previously been sentenced by the Karaj Revolutionary Court to two years in prison and a fine of 24 million tomans on the same charges.
Payam Derafshan, a defense lawyer, revealed that they were also sentenced by the Nazarabad Criminal Court 2 to 91 days in prison for “aiding and abetting in illicit acquisition of wealth” in a separate case.
Derafshan added that he has filed an appeal and is awaiting the Alborz Appeals Court’s decision.
According to HRANA, more than five citizens were sentenced to prison by the Nazarabad Criminal Court 2 in this case.
Mashallah Karami, the father of Mohammad Mehdi Karami, an executed protester, was arrested by security forces on August 22, 2023. He was transferred from The Ministry of Intelligence’s detention facility to Karaj Central Prison on October 28 of the same year.
On May 21, 2024, Karami was sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to five years in prison for “assembly and collusion against national security” and one year for “propaganda against the regime.”
In a separate part of his case, Karami was sentenced by Branch 102 of the Nazarabad Criminal Court 2 to eight years and ten months in prison, along with a 1.9 billion toman fine and confiscation of assets, on charges of “money laundering and illicit acquisition of wealth.”
Notably, on the morning of Saturday, January 7, 2023, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, a protester arrested during the nationwide protests and implicated in the case known as the “murder of Basij member Rouhollah Ajamian,” was executed.
