Overview
- Mostafa Nili, her attorney, says the court issued six years for “gathering and collusion” and one and a half years for “propaganda.”
- Under Iranian law the terms run concurrently, making the six-year sentence the effective prison time.
- Supporters say she ended a nearly week-long hunger strike begun on February 2 and was briefly hospitalized before being returned to detention.
- The ruling adds a two-year internal exile to the city of Khosf and a two-year ban on leaving the country.
- Iranian authorities have not publicly confirmed the verdict, which Nili says can be appealed, after her December 12 arrest at a Mashhad memorial where prosecutors alleged provocative remarks.