HRANA News Agency – The 11-year prison sentence for Hamid Bidar, a graduate of Iran University of Science and Technology, has been fully upheld by Branch 36 of the Tehran Province Court of Appeals.

Hossein Taj, Bidar’s attorney, stated that his client received an 11-year prison sentence on charges including blasphemy, insulting the Supreme Leader, and propaganda against the regime. The initial verdict was handed down by Branch 28 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court and was recently upheld in full by Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals. According to Taj, five years of the sentence are enforceable.

Hamid Bidar, a computer engineering graduate of Iran University of Science and Technology, was arrested by security forces in Tehran on September 1, 2024.

According to the AmirKabir Newsletter, his arrest was linked to his support for Mahmoud Momtazpour, a dismissed assistant professor at Amirkabir University of Technology.

Previously, in 2013, Bidar was also suspended for two semesters by the university’s disciplinary committee, with the suspension counting against his academic years.