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Turkey-Based Iranian Dissident Says Iran Sentenced Her to Prison for
Protesting in 2019

Michael Lipin

   An Iranian dissident living in Turkey says an Iranian court has handed
   her a one-year prison term for joining anti-government protests in Iran
   last year, when she says authorities detained and tortured her into
   making a false confession and tried to enlist her in a kidnap plot.

   Speaking to VOA Persian from Turkey on October 28, 32-year-old Fatemeh
   Khoshrou said the Iranian judiciary sent her a digital notification of
   her one-year sentence on October 22. The notice, which she shared with
   VOA, said a Revolutionary Court in her western Iranian hometown of
   Khorramabad had issued the verdict after a trial in absentia on October
   5.

   The document showed that Khoshrou was convicted of multiple charges
   related to her involvement in the November 2019 nationwide street
   protests that were sparked by the Iranian government's sharp increase
   in subsidized gas prices. She was found guilty of disrupting public
   order by taking part in illegal gatherings, leading riots,
   collaborating with hostile groups and sending footage of illegal
   gatherings to hostile actors based in Turkey.

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