The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been sentenced to five years in prison
The verdict against Faezeh Hashemi, who is a known Iranian activist, is “not final,” the lawyer, Neda Shams, said in a tweet. “The client is still in prison and there are other cases against her,” Shams added. Hashemi was indicted last year by Tehran’s public prosecutor on charges of “propaganda against the system,” state-aligned news agency ISNA said on Tuesday. She was arrested and transferred to Evin prison in September, according to ISNA.
Her father was a revolutionary who fought the Shah’s regime and its Western-leaning social and economic policies but pushed for liberalization and privatization programs when he became president a year after the end of the Iran-Iraq war. Rafsanjani died in 2017 aged 82.
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