HRANA News Agency – Branch 5 of the Mashhad Revolutionary Court has sentenced 12 defense lawyers to a total of 3 years in prison and a combined fine of 240 million tomans. Of the prison sentences issued, 21 months have been suspended for five years.

According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists in Iran, the court convicted these 12 lawyers on charges of propaganda against the regime.

Details of the rulings are as follows:

• Farzaneh Safari, Amin Shahla, and Mohammadreza Yazdani were each sentenced to 1 year in prison. Half of Safari and Shahla’s sentences, and three-quarters of Yazdani’s sentence, were suspended for 5 years.

• Enayatollah Karamati, Kazem Chezgi, and Sahar Dashti were each fined 20 million tomans as a substitute for 3 months and 1 day of prison.

• Mehdi Mohammad Hosseinian, Sajad Javadi, and Amirdokht Bahareh Barzegar were each fined 40 million tomans as a substitute for 6 months and 1 day of prison.

• Rouhollah Hosseini, Fa’ezeh Seyyedi, and Mitra Izadifar were each fined 20 million tomans.

The same court issued a non-prosecution order for another defendant in the case, Sayyedeh Vajih Ghoreishi. Two other lawyers, Ali Asghar Dashti and Seyyed Jafar Saghravanian, were sent back to the prosecutor’s office for further investigation on separate charges including propaganda in favor of the Zionist regime, insulting the Supreme Leader, and spreading falsehoods.
The verdicts are appealable within 20 days of notification at the Khorasan Razavi Court of Appeals.

These lawyers were previously prosecuted in 2022 on charges such as propaganda against the regime, but their case had initially been subject to an pardon directive.