The Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations reported that the prison sentences of Anoush Adeli, Aziz Ghasemzadeh, Teymour Bagheri Koodakani, Tahmasb Sohrabi, Gholamreza Akbarzadeh Baghban, Ali Nahali, Mohammad Javad Saeedi, and Jahanbakhsh Lajevardi, teachers’ union activists from Gilan Province, were converted to fines by Branch 29 of the Gilan Appeals Court. Additionally, Yadollah Baharestani and Mahmoud Sedighipour, two other defendants in the case, were acquitted of the charges against them.

Based on the recent ruling issued by Branch 29 of the Gilan Appeals Court and delivered to the activists, the two-year and one-day prison sentences for each of these teacher union activists have been converted to a fine of 3,300,000 tomans each. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Sedighipour and Yadollah Baharestani were acquitted of all charges.

Previously, Branch 3 of the Rasht Revolutionary Court had sentenced each of these individuals to two years and one day in prison, along with a two-year ban on membership in political and social parties, groups, and organizations for charges of “disrupting public order by participating in and organizing union gatherings and defying police orders.”

These activists, except for Mohammad Javad Saeedi, have previously faced legal actions due to their union activities.