Vice President Shahindokht Molaverdi with President Hassan Rouhani, May 9, 2017 (STR/AFP)
Iran’s former Vice President Shahindokht Molaverdi has been given a two-year prison sentence.
Molaverdi, whose portfolio was women’s issues during her term from 2013 to 2017, was sentenced by a Tehran Revolutionary Court for “providing classified information and documents…aiming to destabilize national security”.
The former Vice President, who was also a “special aide on civil rights affairs” to President Hassan Rouhani, said on Saturday, “I received the sentence this morning, but it’s a preliminary verdict….I will certainly appeal.”
Iranian media said Molaverdi was accused to trying to transfer classified information to foreign parties by “signing a contract with the United Nations Population Fund”. No further details or evidence were provided.
She also reportedly was given another six months in prison for “propaganda” against the system.
In 2016, Molaverdi was summoned by a Tehran court for “spreading false information” after she reportedly said that all the men in a village in Sistan-Baluchistan, in southeast Iran near the Pakistan border, were executed for drug crimes.
The former Vice President was also criticized for her support of the right of women to attend men’s sports events.
““signing a contract with the United Nations Population Fund”
And that is a crime in islamic republic of iran.
It is puzzling, why north korea gets the bad wrap.
Pompeo leading call for investigations into “atrocities” committed by security forces in the fuel protests last year: https://ge.usembassy.gov/rights-groups-call-for-independent-investigation-of-irans-atrocities/
The U.S State Department continues to insist that 1,500 were killed, including 148 in the town of Mahshahr, a figure also cited by the cult-like PMOI/MEK (https://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/mek-at-least-1500-protesters-killed-in-iran/) and the Reuters news agency (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-iran-protests-specialreport/special-report-irans-leader-ordered-crackdown-on-unrest-do-whatever-it-takes-to-end-it-idUKKBN1YR0QN).
The Iranian authorities have declared that 224 civilians (many of them bystanders) and 6 security officers died over 4 days of violent protests and rioting.