{"id":113894,"date":"2023-10-18T06:12:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T11:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=113894"},"modified":"2023-10-18T06:12:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T11:12:30","slug":"iranian-court-jails-lawyer-for-mahsa-aminis-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/10\/18\/iranian-court-jails-lawyer-for-mahsa-aminis-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Court Jails Lawyer for Mahsa Amini&#8217;s Family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div id=\"page\">\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"body-container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-10 col-lg-10 pull-right\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-8 col-lg-8 pull-left bottom-offset content-offset\">\n<div id=\"article-content\" class=\"content-floated-wrap fb-quotable\">\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113895 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE--300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE--150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE--24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE--36x24.jpg 36w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE--48x32.jpg 48w, https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/FILE-.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>VOA \u2014 The lawyer representing the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in police custody last year, has been sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted of \u201cconducting propaganda against the regime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Saleh Nikbakht was charged after the Ministry of Intelligence filed a complaint against him when he discussed Amini\u2019s case in interviews with media outlets. He was sentenced Tuesday by the Islamic Revolutionary Court, according to reports sent to VOA.<\/p>\n<p>Amini\u2019s death sparked months of anti-government protests. Iranian police said she suffered a heart attack while in custody, but her family disputes that claim. Iranian authorities have rejected the family&#8217;s request for a committee of independent doctors to investigate her death.<\/p>\n<p>Nikbakht had further urged a reevaluation of the cause of Amini\u2019s death by \u201cfive out of 12 distinguished doctors in the country,&#8221; as proposed by her family.<\/p>\n<p>Ali Rezaei, a lawyer representing Nikbakht, insisted that his client\u2019s statements were rooted in his &#8220;legal obligations as an attorney&#8221; and that he had not committed any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VOA \u2014 The lawyer representing the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in police custody last year, has been sentenced to a year in prison after being convicted of \u201cconducting propaganda against the regime.\u201d Saleh Nikbakht was charged after the Ministry of Intelligence filed a complaint against him when he discussed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":113895,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recposts"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113897,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113894\/revisions\/113897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}