Faezeh Hashemi at her father's funeral in 2017
Photo: ATTA KENARE/ AFP
The daughter of former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, has apparently been sentenced in Iran: She has to be jailed for five years for "propaganda" against the Islamic Republic and offenses against national security, according to her lawyer Neda Schams of the AFP news agency communicated.
Schams also announced that he would appeal the verdict.
Faezeh Hashemi was arrested in the capital Tehran at the end of September.
She was accused of calling for participation in anti-government protests following the death of Kurdish woman Jina Mahsa Amini in police custody.
The women's rights activist and former MP Faezeh Hashemi had previously been targeted by the Iranian judiciary several times.
According to a judicial spokesman, she was sentenced to 15 months in prison in March 2022 and was banned from internet activities for two years.
In 2012 she was arrested for "propaganda" against the Islamic Republic and sentenced to six months in prison.
Her feminist newspaper was banned in 1999
As a women's rights activist, Hashemi was always against compulsory headscarves, although she wears one herself.
She was also the editor of the daily newspaper »Zan« (Woman), which had to close in 1999 because of its feminist views.
Her father was president from 1989 to 1997.
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was considered moderate and worked to improve relations with the West.
He died in 2017. Hashemi Rafsanjani was among the architects of the 1979 Iranian revolution and was also a mentor to former President Hassan Rouhani.
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