A Report about the Latest Status of Amirnozar Nouripour

HRANA News Agency – Amirnozar Nouripour allegedly accused of cooperating with a Facebook satire page was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to ten years and sent to Evin prison in April of 2014. Although the court of the appeal confirmed his verdict, his sentence was reduced to thirty months imprisonment following the enforcement of the new Islamic Penal Code. He is now serving his sentence in Evin prison.
Amirnozar Nouripour, Hamid Khoshseir, Soheil Babadi, Yaser Hamidi, Kourosh (Mohammad) Nasiri along with several other Iranians were arrested in May 2012 with the charge of involvement in “The Campaign to Remind Shiites about Imam Naghi “by members of Ministry of Intelligence and IRGC in a joint operation.
Amirnozar Nouripour was detained for 75 days in ward 2-A of Evin prison and temporarily released on the bail of 3000 billion IRR.
Branch 28 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh sentenced him to ten years in prison on charge of “insulting to sanctities” and “gathering and colluding to commit a crime against national security” after he sent a satirical poem to the Campaign’s Facebook page.
Branch 54 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court confirmed the verdict; however, based on article 134 of the new Islamic Penal Code, the court integrated his verdict and granted general amnesty to him, consequently his sentence was reduced to two years and six months.
Amirnozar Nouripour went to prison to serve his term in April 2014. He spent one year and six months in poor conditions of ward 8 and suffered from infectious diseases during that term.
He is married and has one child. He’s currently being kept in ward 7, hall 2 of Evin prison. His prison sentence officially ends on August 7.

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