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Ahmady is Kurdish and has investigated issues such as child marriage and female genital mutilation in Iran.
In addition to the prison sentence, he is sentenced to pay the equivalent of just over SEK 6.1 million in fines. That is the amount that the Iranian authorities claim to have received in support of the investigation of institutions that Iran accuses of having attempted to overthrow the country’s government.
Ahmady was arrested in August 2019, but was released on bail after three months, according to human rights groups. On Twitter, it is written about how he has been denied a fair trial and did not have access to a lawyer while in custody.
“I have been found guilty after being denied a lawyer for 100 days in custody and in extrajudicial hearings, as well as after two unprofessional trials filled with legal violations.”
Many political prisoners are being held in Iranian jails awaiting sentence or serving sentences. One of them is the Swedish-Iranian doctor and researcher Ahmadreza Djalali, who was sentenced to death for espionage in a criticized trial in 2017.
This weekend, Iranian activist and journalist Ruhollah Zam, who had lived in exile in Paris for a long time after being granted asylum in France, was executed. The EU has strongly condemned the execution.
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